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14-letter words containing n, i, m, o

  • mount victoria — a mountain in SE Papua New Guinea: the highest peak of the Owen Stanley Range. Height: 4073 m (13 363 ft)
  • mountain avens — either of two trailing evergreen white-flowered rosaceous shrubs of the genus Dryas that grow on mountains in N temperate regions and in the Arctic
  • mountain chain — a series of ranges of mountains
  • mountain guide — a trained professional mountaineer who guides climbers up a mountain
  • mountain nyala — a similar and related Ethiopian animal, T. buxtoni, lacking the white crest
  • mountain range — series or chain of mountains
  • mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
  • mountain state — any of the eight states of the W U.S. through which the Rocky Mountains pass; Mont., Ida., Wyo., Nev., Utah, Colo., Ariz., or N.Mex.
  • mountaineering — The sport or activity of climbing mountains.
  • mounted police — police who patrol on horseback
  • mounting-block — a block of stone formerly used to aid a person when mounting a horse
  • mourning bride — a plant, Scabiosa atropurpurea, native to Europe, cultivated for its purple, reddish, or white flowers.
  • mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
  • mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • moving average — one of a succession of averages of data from a time series, where each average is calculated by successively shifting the interval by the same period of time.
  • moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
  • mowing machine — a machine for mowing or cutting down grass, grain, etc.
  • mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
  • multi-function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • multi-location — the state or power of being in more than two places at the same time.
  • multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • multicollinear — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting multicollinearity.
  • multicomponent — Having, or affecting, multiple components.
  • multiconductor — having or involving several electrical conductors
  • multinationals — Plural form of multinational.
  • multiplication — the act or process of multiplying or the state of being multiplied.
  • multipotential — able to differentiate along several lines
  • multisectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
  • muni bond fund — municipal bond fund.
  • municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • munition armor — armor made in quantity for common soldiers.
  • munitions dump — a place where munitions are stored
  • musca volitans — floater (def 6).
  • musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
  • musicalization — the adaptation of a novel, play, etc into a musical form
  • muster station — the place on a ship where passengers should assemble in the event of an emergency
  • mylonitization — the geological process which causes the formation of mylonite
  • mysteriousness — full of, characterized by, or involving mystery: a mysterious occurrence.
  • napalm bombing — the act of attacking with napalm bombs
  • narcoterrorism — terrorist tactics employed by dealers in illicit drugs, as against competitors or government agents.
  • neil armstrong — (Daniel) Louis ("Satchmo") 1900–71, U.S. jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
  • nematodiriasis — the condition, esp in sheep, of having parasitic nematode worms of the genus Nematodirus in the small intestine
  • neo-kantianism — Kantianism as modified by various philosophers.
  • neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
  • neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
  • neo-melanesian — a pidgin language based on English and spoken in Melanesia, New Guinea, and NE Australia.
  • neo-surrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
  • neocolonialism — the policy of a strong nation in seeking political and economic hegemony over an independent nation or extended geographical area without necessarily reducing the subordinate nation or area to the legal status of a colony.
  • neoromanticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) Fine Arts. a style of painting developed in the 20th century, chiefly characterized by forms or images that project a sense of nostalgia and fantasy.
  • nephrectomized — to perform a nephrectomy upon.
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