14-letter words containing m, u, t, a, i
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- manipulability — capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.
- manipulatively — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- manual testing — (testing) That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
- margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
- margin account — an account opened by a customer with a brokerage house in which listed securities can be purchased on margin.
- marital status — whether or not one is married
- martin du gard — Roger [raw-zhey] /rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1958, French novelist: Nobel prize 1937.
- marumi kumquat — round kumquat.
- 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?
- maturity value — The maturity value of a life insurance policy is the amount of money that is paid out when it matures.
- 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.
- 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.
- mercaptopurine — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 5 H 4 N 4 S, used in the treatment of leukemia.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
- metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
- metatextuality — A form of intertextual discourse in which one text makes critical commentary on another.
- metrosexuality — The quality of being metrosexual.
- microminiature — built on an extremely small scale, smaller than subminiature, especially of electronic equipment with small solid-state components in the place of vacuum tubes.
- micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
- microstomatous — having an unusually small mouth
- milieu therapy — a type of inpatient therapy, used in psychiatric hospitals, involving prescription of particular activities and social interactions according to a patient's emotional and interpersonal needs.
- military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
- miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
- minicalculator — a very small handheld calculator
- minus quantity — a quantity less than zero
- mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
- 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.
- modularization — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- moisturization — The act or process of moisturizing.
- monumentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of monumentalize.
- mosquito coast — a coastal region in Central America bordering on the Caribbean Sea, E of Honduras and Nicaragua.
- motion capture — a process by which a device can be used to capture patterns of live movement; the data is then transmitted to a computer, where simulation software displays it applied to a virtual actor
- mount victoria — a mountain in SE Papua New Guinea: the highest peak of the Owen Stanley Range. Height: 4073 m (13 363 ft)
- 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