14-letter words containing m, u, l, i
- multimolecular — (chemistry, physics) Involving multiple molecules.
- multinationals — Plural form of multinational.
- multinucleated — Having multiple nuclei; multinucleate.
- multiparameter — Having, or employing multiple parameters.
- multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
- multiple drill — a drilling machine having a number of vertical spindles for drilling several holes in a piece simultaneously.
- multiple fruit — a fruit, such as a pineapple, formed from the ovaries of individual flowers in an inflorescence
- multiple store — chain store.
- multiple value — (database) (MU) A one-to-many relationship between entries in a database, for example a person may have an address field which spanned multiple records (with different indexes). Multiple values are a non-relational technique. MUs have recently been made available in DB2, despite the product being so heavily influenced by Codd's Laws of relational databases.
- multiplication — the act or process of multiplying or the state of being multiplied.
- multiplicative — tending to multiply or increase.
- multiplicities — Plural form of multiplicity.
- multipotential — able to differentiate along several lines
- multiprocessor — parallel processing
- multiracialism — The promotion of a diverse society composed of various races with different cultural backgrounds.
- multireligious — belonging to or following more than one religion
- multisectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- multispecialty — (US) Exhibiting or possessing multiple specialties (especially medical specialties).
- 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.
- multiversities — Plural form of multiversity.
- multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
- municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- musca volitans — floater (def 6).
- 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.
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- museologically — In a museological manner.
- music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
- musical chairs — Also called going to Jerusalem. a game in which players march to music around two rows of chairs placed back to back, there being one chair less than the number of players, the object being to find a seat when the music stops abruptly. The player failing to do so is removed from the game, together with one chair, at each interval.
- musical comedy — musical (def 5).
- musicalization — the adaptation of a novel, play, etc into a musical form
- 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.
- mutual insurer — A mutual insurer is an insurance company which is owned by its members or policyholders rather than by shareholders.
- mutual society — co-operative organization
- myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
- neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
- neo-surrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- neutral monism — the theory that mind and matter consist of different relations between entities that are themselves neither mental nor physical.
- new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
- nil nisi bonum — de mortuis nil nisi bonum
- noctambulation — Sleepwalking.
- non-malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- non-naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.
- noncombustible — not flammable.
- nonequilibrium — The condition of not being in equilibrium.
- nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- nonfulfillment — neglect or failure to fulfill or carry out as required.
- nonimmunologic — Not immunologic.