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15-letter words containing n, i, m, o, u, s

  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
  • instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
  • isoimmunization — the development of isoantibodies within an individual in order to protect against antigens derived from a different member of the same species
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • junior minister — politics
  • jus postliminii — postliminy.
  • kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • macrosporangium — megasporangium.
  • magnanimousness — The quality of being magnanimous.
  • magnesium oxide — magnesia.
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
  • marcus antoniusMark (Marcus Antonius) 83?–30 b.c, Roman general: friend of Caesar; member of the second triumvirate and rival of Octavian.
  • marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
  • masculinization — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
  • mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
  • mellifluousness — sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
  • menispermaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Menispermaceae, a family of mainly tropical and subtropical plants, most of which are woody climbers with small flowers
  • meritoriousness — The property of being meritorious.
  • microbusinesses — Plural form of microbusiness.
  • micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
  • microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
  • miniaturisation — Alternative spelling of miniaturization.
  • misarticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
  • miscalculations — Plural form of miscalculation.
  • miscellaneously — In a miscellaneous manner.
  • mischievousness — maliciously or playfully annoying.
  • miscommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscommunicate.
  • misconstruction — wrong construction; misinterpretation: to put a misconstruction upon an action.
  • misdistribution — Incorrect or unfair distribution.
  • monkey business — frivolous or mischievous behavior.
  • monoculturalism — The practice of actively preserving a culture to the exclusion of external influences.
  • mononucleotides — Plural form of mononucleotide.
  • monosubstituted — containing one substituent.
  • montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
  • mortiferousness — deadliness
  • motor insurance — insurance for a motor vehicle such as a car, which provides protection against loss in the event of an accident, theft, etc
  • mount of olives — a hill to the east of Jerusalem: in New Testament times the village Bethany (Mark 11:11) was on its eastern slope and Gethsemane on its western one
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • mountain rescue — search and rescue conducted on a mountain, for example of someone who has fallen, got lost, etc
  • mountainousness — The quality of being mountainous.
  • mouse droppings — 1.   (graphics, operating system, jargon)   Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2.   (web, jargon)   The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.
  • mucosanguineous — containing or made up of blood and mucus
  • mules operation — the surgical removal of folds of skin in the breech of a sheep to reduce blowfly strike
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