14-letter words containing m, u, s, i, t, a
- marital status — whether or not one is married
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- mastigophorous — carrying a cane or whip
- material cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- mauritius hemp — a tropical American plant, Furcraea foetida, having large, fleshy leaves, cultivated as a source of a hemplike fiber.
- mcclure strait — an arm of the Beaufort Sea between Banks Island in the south and Melville Island and Eglinton Island to the north, in the Northwest Territories, Canada. About 170 miles (270 km) long and 60 miles (90 km) wide.
- metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
- metrosexuality — The quality of being metrosexual.
- micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
- microstomatous — having an unusually small mouth
- military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
- minus quantity — a quantity less than zero
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- miscalculating — Present participle of miscalculate.
- miscalculation — An act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgment.
- miscommunicate — (ambitransitive) To communicate incorrectly.
- miscomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- mismeasurement — an inaccurate or incorrect measurement
- mispunctuation — incorrect punctuation
- misunderstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misunderstand.
- misutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- moisturization — The act or process of moisturizing.
- mosquito coast — a coastal region in Central America bordering on the Caribbean Sea, E of Honduras and Nicaragua.
- mountain avens — either of two trailing evergreen white-flowered rosaceous shrubs of the genus Dryas that grow on mountains in N temperate regions and in the Arctic
- mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
- mountain state — any of the eight states of the W U.S. through which the Rocky Mountains pass; Mont., Ida., Wyo., Nev., Utah, Colo., Ariz., or N.Mex.
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
- multinationals — Plural form of multinational.
- multiracialism — The promotion of a diverse society composed of various races with different cultural backgrounds.
- multisectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- multispecialty — (US) Exhibiting or possessing multiple specialties (especially medical specialties).
- multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
- musca volitans — floater (def 6).
- music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
- musicalization — the adaptation of a novel, play, etc into a musical form
- 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.
- muster station — the place on a ship where passengers should assemble in the event of an emergency
- 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
- neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
- neuroanatomist — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
- neutral monism — the theory that mind and matter consist of different relations between entities that are themselves neither mental nor physical.
- non-assumptive — taken for granted.
- non-humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- 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.
- nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.