14-letter words containing m, u, d, l, i
- image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
- incommodiously — In an incommodious manner.
- intramedullary — located within the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, or bone marrow
- judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
- liquid compass — wet compass.
- liquid measure — the system of units of capacity ordinarily used in measuring liquid commodities, as milk or oil. English system: 4 gills = 1 pint; 2 pints = 1 quart; 4 quarts = 1 gallon. Metric system: 1000 milliliters = 1 liter; 1000 liters = 1 kiloliter (= 1 cubic meter).
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- mandibulohyoid — (anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch.
- mare acidalium — (Sea of Venus) an area in the northern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- maturity yield — Finance. the rate of return on a bond expressed as a percentage that accounts for the difference between the interest earned based on current market value and that earned if the bond is held to maturity.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- midwall column — a column or the like carrying a wall overhanging it on both sides.
- mind uploading — (application) The science fiction concept of copying one's mind into an artificial body or computer.
- mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
- mixed language — any language containing items of vocabulary or other linguistic characteristics borrowed from two or more existing languages
- modularization — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- mononucleotide — (genetics) A single nucleotide.
- monumentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of monumentalize.
- moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
- mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
- mounted police — police who patrol on horseback
- multi-talented — having talent or special ability; gifted.
- multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- multiconductor — having or involving several electrical conductors
- multidialectal — encompassing or involving several dialects
- multielectrode — having or involving several electrodes
- multigrade oil — Multigrade oil is engine or gear oil which works well at both low and high temperatures.
- multinucleated — Having multiple nuclei; multinucleate.
- multiple drill — a drilling machine having a number of vertical spindles for drilling several holes in a piece simultaneously.
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- muscle spindle — Cell Biology. a proprioceptor in skeletal muscle, composed of striated muscle fibers and sensory nerve endings in a connective tissue sheath, that conveys information via the spinal nerves on the state of muscle stretch, important in the reflex mechanism that maintains body posture.
- musical comedy — musical (def 5).
- muslin delaine — mousseline de laine.
- mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
- ordinal number — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
- overmodulation — excessive amplitude modulation, resulting in distortion of a signal.
- platinum-blond — (of hair) of a pale silver-blond colour
- plumbous oxide — litharge.
- pseudo-medical — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
- quadrupedalism — The condition of being a quadruped.
- quadruple time — a measure consisting of four beats or pulses with accent on the first and third.
- quasi-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- quitclaim deed — a deed that conveys to the grantee only such interests in property as the grantor may have, the grantee assuming responsibility for any claims brought against the property.
- radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- service module — (often initial capital letters) U.S. Aerospace. the section of an Apollo spacecraft containing the principal propulsion system, electrical system, water, and other supplies.
- sesquipedalism — given to using long words.