14-letter words containing n, a, s, c
- lunatic asylum — psychiatric hospital
- macartney rose — a trailing or climbing evergreen rose, Rosa bracteata, of China, having shiny leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
- machicolations — Plural form of machicolation.
- machine finish — a very smooth paper surface, created by a machine.
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- machine stitch — a stitch created by a sewing machine
- machine-stitch — to sew on a sewing machine.
- macintosh iicx — (computer) (Mac IIcx) A version of Apple's Macintosh II personal computer, introduced in 1989, with a Motorola 68030 processor running at 16 MHz and up to 128 MB of RAM (120 ns, 30-pin DRAM chips). The IIcx requires System 6.0.3 or later and requires "Mode 32" or "32-bit Enabler" to use more than 8MB of RAM. It was discontinued 1991, and in 1996 is still considered one of the best-designed Macs ever.
- macro-organism — an organism that can be seen with the naked eye.
- macroeconomics — the branch of economics dealing with the broad and general aspects of an economy, as the relationship between the income and investments of a country as a whole.
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
- macrosporangia — Plural form of macrosporangium.
- magnetic storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
- magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- magnetostatics — the branch of magnetics that deals with magnetic fields that do not vary with time (magnetostatic fields)
- magnifications — Plural form of magnification.
- majesticalness — the glory or majesty of someone or something
- make no secret — If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
- make the scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
- malacostracans — Plural form of malacostracan.
- manic disorder — a type of affective disorder characterized by euphoric mood, excessive activity and talkativeness, impaired judgment, and sometimes psychotic symptoms, as grandiose delusions.
- marginal hacks — (humour) Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
- marine science — the branch of science concerned with the sea
- marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
- marrons glaces — chestnuts cooked in syrup and glazed
- mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
- masonry cement — a mix typically of Portland cement, hydrated lime, and other materials, used to improve the water retention and workability of the cement in masonry work.
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- mastocarcinoma — carcinoma of the breast.
- mathematicians — Plural form of mathematician.
- mechanicalness — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being mechanical.
- mechanicsville — a village in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle 1862.
- medicalisation — Alternative spelling of medicalization.
- melancholiness — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- mendaciousness — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
- mensural music — polyphonic music of the 13th century in which each note has a strictly determined value.
- mercantilistic — Relating to, or characteristic of mercantilism.
- merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
- mesencephalons — Plural form of mesencephalon.
- message center — an office or other area where incoming and outgoing messages, mail, etc., are received and transmitted, as by telephone, computer, or messenger.
- metafictionist — A writer of metafiction.
- metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
- metaphysicians — Plural form of metaphysician.
- metencephalons — Plural form of metencephalon.
- methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
- metric madness — excessive devotion to metrication
- micro-organism — any organism too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, as bacteria, protozoa, and some fungi and algae.
- microaneurysms — Plural form of microaneurysm.