13-letter words containing n, a, m, c
- mortification — a feeling of humiliation or shame, as through some injury to one's pride or self-respect.
- mosaic vision — a type of vision hypothesized for the insect compound eye, in which the image is formed by hundreds of separate ommatidia.
- much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.
- mucocutaneous — Of or pertaining to the mucous membranes and the skin.
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- multilocation — the state or power of being in more than two places at the same time.
- multinucleate — having a nucleus.
- multiplicands — Plural form of multiplicand.
- multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
- mummification — to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
- mundification — the act of cleansing a wound
- mundificative — a cleansing medicine or preparation
- municipalized — Simple past tense and past participle of municipalize.
- munsell scale — a standard chromaticity scale used in specifying colour. It gives approximately equal changes in visual hue
- mutagenically — in a mutagenic manner
- mystification — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- mythicization — to turn into, treat, or explain as a myth.
- mythification — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
- nanochemistry — (chemistry) The synthesis, analysis and characterization of chemical compounds at the nanoscale.
- nanocomposite — Denoting a composite material that has a grain size measured in nanometers.
- nautical mile — a unit of distance used chiefly in navigation, equal to 6080.20 feet (1853.25 meters) in the U.S., now replaced by the international nautical mile.
- naval academy — a collegiate institution for training naval officers.
- necklace bomb — a bomb consisting of linked charges hung around a victim's neck, used by terrorists or in hostage situations
- necromantical — Alternative form of necromantic.
- nematological — of or pertaining to nematology
- neocapitalism — a politico-economic theory combining elements of capitalism and socialism
- neoclassicism — (often initial capital letter) Architecture. the trend or movement prevailing in the architecture of Europe, America, and various European colonies at various periods during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, characterized by the introduction and widespread use of Greek orders and decorative motifs, the subordination of detail to simple, strongly geometric overall compositions, the presence of light colors or shades, frequent shallowness of relief in ornamental treatment of façades, and the absence of textural effects.
- neoplasticism — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- nervomuscular — (physiology) Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles.
- neuroanatomic — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
- neurochemical — of or relating to neurochemistry.
- neuromuscular — pertaining to or affecting both nerves and muscles.
- new age music — a type of gentle melodic popular music originating in the US in the late 1980s, which takes in elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and is played largely on synthesizers and acoustic instruments
- nightwatchman — Someone who guards a premises at night.
- nightwatchmen — Plural form of nightwatchman.
- nimonic alloy — type of nickel-based alloy
- nithiocyamine — Amoscanate.
- nodical month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- nomenclatural — a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.
- nomenclatures — Plural form of nomenclature.
- nominal scale — a discrete classification of data, in which data are neither measured nor ordered but subjects are merely allocated to distinct categories: for example, a record of students' course choices constitutes nominal data which could be correlated with school results
- non-chromatic — pertaining to color or colors.
- non-claimable — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- non-combatant — a person connected with a military force in some capacity other than that of a fighter, as a surgeon or chaplain.
- non-committal — not committing oneself, or not involving committal, to a particular view, course, or the like: The senator gave us a noncommittal answer.
- non-compliant — failure or refusal to comply, as with a law, regulation, or term of a contract.
- non-customary — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- non-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- non-empirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
- non-malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.