13-letter words containing n, e, i, m
- melodiousness — The property of being melodious.
- melting point — the temperature at which a solid substance melts or fuses.
- melvin conway — (person) An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
- memo function — (programming) (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
- memorialising — Present participle of memorialise.
- memorializing — Present participle of memorialize.
- meningococcal — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or caused by meningococci.
- meningococcic — relating to, or caused by, the meningococcus bacterium
- meningococcus — a reniform or spherical bacterium, Neisseria meningitidis, that causes cerebrospinal meningitis.
- mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
- mental strain — a state of worry and tension caused by a situation
- mercenariness — The state or condition of being mercenary.
- mercer island — a city in W central Washington, on Mercer Island in Lake Washington, east of Seattle.
- mercerisation — A process of treating cotton with sodium hydroxide in order to make it more lustrous.
- mercerization — to treat (cotton yarns or fabric) with caustic alkali under tension, in order to increase strength, luster, and affinity for dye.
- merchandisers — Plural form of merchandiser.
- merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
- merchant ship — law: commercial vessel
- mercilessness — without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
- mercurialness — Quality of being mercurial; mercuriality.
- mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
- meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
- mesencephalic — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- mesmerization — to hypnotize.
- mesmerizingly — In a way or to an extent that mesmerizes.
- mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
- messianically — the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.
- meta-analysis — a research study that combines and analyzes statistics gathered from multiple independent studies
- metacognition — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
- metacognitive — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
- metaevolution — (philosophy, biology) The evolution of the elements of evolutionary systems.
- metafictional — Of, relating to, or being metafiction.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- metalcrafting — metalworking.
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- metallic lens — an arrangement of louvres used to direct and focus electromagnetic or sound waves
- metallization — The act or process of metallizing.
- metamagnetism — (physics) Any of several effects in which a small change in an applied magnetic field causes a sharp change in magnetization.
- metanarrative — A narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge; a grand story that is self-legitimizing.
- metanephridia — Plural form of metanephridium.
- metaphysician — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
- metasemantics — (linguistics) The part of metalanguage that deals with semantics.
- metastasising — Present participle of metastasise.
- metastasizing — Present participle of metastasize.
- metatoluidine — a colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 9 N, the meta isomer of toluidine, used in the manufacture of dyes and other organic compounds.
- metenkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- metering pump — A metering pump is a device used to pump precise amounts of liquids over a period of time.
- methantheline — a compound, C 2 1 H 2 6 BrNO 3 , used in the form of its bromide in the treatment of excessive sweating and salivation, peptic ulcer, stomach cramps, and other conditions resulting from nerve dysfunction.
- methemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.