16-letter words containing m, o, u, s, l, e
- fullness of time — the proper or destined time.
- heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
- humanly possible — feasible, practical
- hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- image consultant — imagemaker.
- incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
- kekule's formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
- league champions — the team that has come top of the league
- limited-stop bus — a bus which only stops at a small number of predetermined stops, rather than on request
- lose your memory — If you lose your memory, you forget things that you used to know.
- lourenco marques — former name of Maputo.
- mail-order house — a retail firm that conducts its business by receiving orders and shipping its merchandise through the mail and that supplies its customers with catalogs, circulars, etc.
- malicious damage — Malicious damage is damage caused on purpose to the property of another person.
- manganese nodule — a small irregular concretion found on deep ocean floors having high concentrations of certain metals, esp manganese
- marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
- medulloblastomas — Plural form of medulloblastoma.
- menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
- methyl cellulose — a grayish-white powder prepared from cellulose that swells to a highly viscous colloidal solution in water: used as a food additive and in water paints, leather tanning, and cosmetics.
- microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
- microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
- mistletoe cactus — a tropical, branched cactus, Rhipsalis baccifera (or cassutha), having cylindrical stems and mistletoelike fruit.
- mock turtle soup — a rich, clear soup prepared to resemble green turtle soup, made with a calf's head or other meat, seasonings, and often with wine.
- modern languages — languages currently spoken
- monocotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the monocotyledons.
- monoline insurer — insurer who pays the principal and interest on a bond in the event of a default
- montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
- monumental mason — a person who makes gravestones and suchlike
- mortgagee clause — a clause attached to a fire-insurance policy for protecting a mortgagee against loss or damage.
- moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
- mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
- mousseline sauce — a light sauce, made by adding whipped cream or egg whites to hollandaise sauce
- multidimensional — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
- multiple factors — polygene.
- multiple fission — fission into more than two new organisms.
- musculocutaneous — of, relating to, or supplying the muscles and skin
- musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
- mustard-coloured — of a brownish-yellow colour
- mutual exclusion — (parallel, operating system) (Or "mutex", plural: "mutexes") A collection of techniques for sharing resources so that different uses do not conflict and cause unwanted interactions. One of the most commonly used techniques for mutual exclusion is the semaphore.
- mutual recursion — recursion
- myelosuppression — (medicine) A reduction of bone marrow activity that leads to a lower concentration of platelets, red blood cells and white blood cells.
- national costume — traditional dress
- non-instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
- nuclear emulsion — a photographic emulsion in the form of a thick block, used to record the tracks of elementary particles.
- outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
- pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium
- people smuggling — People smuggling or people trafficking is the practice of bringing immigrants into a country illegally.
- people's commune — a usually rural, Communist Chinese social and administrative unit of from 2000 to 4000 families combined for collective farming, fishing, mining, or industrial projects.
- phase modulation — radio transmission in which the carrier wave is modulated by changing its phase to transmit the amplitude and pitch of the signal.
- photoluminescent — luminescence induced by the absorption of infrared radiation, visible light, or ultraviolet radiation.