15-letter words containing m, o, s, u, l
- ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- fifth columnist — A fifth columnist is someone who secretly supports and helps the enemies of the country or organization they are in.
- flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
- flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
- fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
- food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
- formal calculus — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
- formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
- foundationalism — (epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs.
- get one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- go up in flames — be burned
- gram's solution — (sometimes lowercase) a solution of iodine, potassium iodide, and water, used in staining bacteria.
- guild socialism — a form of socialism developed in England in the 20th century, emphasizing decentralization of industry and services with control to be vested in autonomous guilds of workers.
- hamamelidaceous — belonging to the Hamamelidaceae, the witch hazel family of plants.
- heterosexualism — Discrimination of non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
- homochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth in which the sepals and petals are fused together and indistinguishable
- homosexualities — Plural form of homosexuality.
- hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
- human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
- humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
- hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
- hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
- immunoassayable — Suitable for immunoassay.
- immunoglobulins — Plural form of immunoglobulin.
- immunohistology — the microscopic study of tissues with the aid of antibodies that bind to tissue components and reveal their presence.
- immunostimulant — (immunology, pharmacology) Any substance that stimulates an immune response.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
- jerusalem cross — a cross whose four arms are each capped with a crossbar and often with a small Greek cross centered in each quadrant.
- jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
- jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
- jus postliminii — postliminy.
- largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- little missouri — a river in the NW United States, rising in NE Wyoming and flowing NE into the Missouri through N Dakota. 560 miles (900 km) long.
- lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
- luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
- lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
- macrostructural — relating to or resembling a macrostructure
- maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
- male prostitute — man who has sex for money
- marsupial mouse — any of various mouse-sized to rat-sized marsupials of the family Dasyuridae, occurring in Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania: some species are rare or endangered.
- masculinization — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- massage parlour — A massage parlour is a place where people go and pay for a massage. Some places that are called massage parlours are in fact places where people pay to have sex.
- medical tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.