13-letter words containing m, u, n, t
- importunately — urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
- importunities — Plural form of importunity.
- impostumation — an abscess or swelling filled with pus
- inclinatorium — an instrument invented by Robert Norman in 1576, used to determine the degree to which a magnetic needle dips towards the earth; a dipping needle
- incombustible — not combustible; incapable of being burned; fireproof.
- incouragement — Archaic form of encouragement.
- indian mutiny — a revolt of the sepoy troops in British India (1857–59), resulting in the transfer of the administration of India from the East India Company to the crown.
- indirect jump — (programming) A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- industrialism — an economic organization of society built largely on mechanized industry rather than agriculture, craftsmanship, or commerce.
- inner sanctum — sanctum (def 2).
- instrumentals — Plural form of instrumental.
- instrumenting — Present participle of instrument.
- integumentary — of, relating to, or like an integument.
- intercommunal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- intermountain — located between mountains or mountain ranges: an intermontane lake.
- intermuscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- interstimulus — being, or relating to, the interval between the occurrence of two stimuli in a psychological experiment
- intramuscular — located or occurring within a muscle.
- introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
- jejunostomies — Plural form of jejunostomy.
- judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
- judgment book — the book from which all persons will be judged at the Last Judgment, containing a full record of their acts.
- judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
- judgment debt — Law. a debt established or confirmed by decree of a court of law.
- judgment note — Law. a note that expressly authorizes a creditor, in case of default, to seek a judgment in court without notifying the debtor.
- judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
- just a minute — wait, stop
- just a moment — an expression requesting the hearer to wait or pause for a brief period of time
- justin martyr — Saint, a.d. c100–163? early church historian and philosopher.
- lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
- last judgment — judgment (def 8).
- lectisternium — (in ancient Rome) a religious rite in which the images of the gods were placed upon couches around a table, upon which was set a feast
- leg-of-mutton — having the triangular shape of a leg of mutton: leg-of-mutton sail; a dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves.
- lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
- light quantum — photon.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
- luncheon meat — any of various sausages or molded loaf meats, usually sliced and served cold, as in sandwiches or as garnishes for salads.
- macadamia nut — edible seed
- macromutation — a mutation that has a profound effect on the resulting organism, as a change in a regulatory gene that controls the expression of many structural genes.
- macronucleate — having a macronucleus.
- macronutrient — Nutrition. any of the nutritional components of the diet that are required in relatively large amounts: protein, carbohydrate, fat, and the macrominerals.
- magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- magnetic flux — the total magnetic induction crossing a surface, equal to the integral of the component of magnetic induction perpendicular to the surface over the surface: usually measured in webers or maxwells.
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- magnitudinous — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
- magnus effect — the thrust on a cylinder rotating about its axis while in motion in a fluid, the thrust being perpendicular to the relative motion of the cylinder in the fluid.
- maladjustment — bad or unsatisfactory adjustment.
- malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.