16-letter words containing n, i, c, d, m
- manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
- maritime command — the naval branch of the Canadian armed forces
- masculine ending — a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
- mass destruction — devastation on a large scale
- measuring device — gauge
- medical examiner — a physician or other person trained in medicine who is appointed by a city, county, or the like, to perform autopsies on the bodies of persons supposed to have died from unnatural causes and to investigate the cause and circumstances of such deaths.
- medicine cabinet — cupboard where medication is stored
- medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
- medium frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 kilohertz. Abbreviation: MF.
- melodic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- mental defective — a person who suffers from a learning disability or from some form of mental illness
- metavanadic acid — an oxyacid of vanadium, known chiefly in the form of its vanadate salts; Formula: H4V2O7
- mexican standoff — a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can win.
- midair collision — a crash, such as a plane crash, that takes place in the air
- mittelland canal — a canal in Germany, linking the Rivers Rhine and Elbe. Length: 325 km (202 miles)
- modern icelandic — the Icelandic language since c1550.
- mongolian idiocy — (no longer in technical use) Down syndrome.
- monohybrid cross — the offspring of individuals that differ with respect to a particular gene pair.
- moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
- moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
- multi-discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
- multidisciplined — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
- mutual impedance — the ratio of the potential difference between either of two pairs of terminals to the current applied at the other pair of terminals when the circuit is open.
- mutual induction — the production of an electromotive force in one circuit by a change in current in another circuit.
- nevado de colima — a volcano in SW Mexico, in Jalisco state. Height: 4339 m (14 235 ft)
- non-commissioned — A non-commissioned officer in the armed forces is someone with a rank such as corporal or sergeant who used to have a lower rank, rather than an officer of higher rank who has been given a commission.
- nondeterministic — the doctrine that all facts and events exemplify natural laws.
- nuclear medicine — diagnostic and therapeutic medical techniques using radionuclides or radioisotopes.
- oneida community — a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.
- oxonium compound — a salt formed by the reaction of an acid with an organic compound containing a basic oxygen atom.
- permanganic acid — an acid, HMnO 4 , known only in solution.
- pharmacodynamics — the branch of pharmacology dealing with the course of action, effect, and breakdown of drugs within the body.
- picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
- presence of mind — a calm state of mind that allows one to think clearly or act effectively in an emergency.
- primary deviance — the violation of a norm or rule that does not result in the violator's being stigmatized as deviant.
- promotional code — A promotional code is a code offered by retailers to customers who can use it to receive a discounted price when buying products online.
- radio microphone — a microphone incorporating a radio transmitter so that the user can move around freely
- ramsden eyepiece — an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex crown-glass lenses of equal focal length, placed with the convex sides facing each other and with a separation between the lenses of about two-thirds of the focal length of each.
- rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
- residence permit — permission allowing someone to legally reside in a country
- richard stallman — (person) Richard M. Stallman. Founder of the GNU project. He resigned from the AI lab at MIT so he would be free to produce free software which he could then distribute on his own terms. He went on to establish the Free Software Foundation to support the production of free software and ensure its free distribution. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- rooting compound — a substance, usually a powder, containing auxins in which plant cuttings are dipped in order to promote root growth
- schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
- sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
- self-discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
- simply-connected — (of a set or domain) having a connected complement.
- situation comedy — a comedy drama, especially a television series made up of discrete episodes about the same group of characters, as members of a family.
- social darwinism — a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.