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14-letter words containing n, i, t, r, o

  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
  • microinjection — injection performed under a microscope, especially of a solution or gene transplant into a cell or cell part.
  • micromagnetism — (physics) The study of magnetism at the sub-micrometre scale.
  • micromarketing — the marketing of products or services designed to meet the needs of a very small section of the market
  • microminiature — built on an extremely small scale, smaller than subminiature, especially of electronic equipment with small solid-state components in the place of vacuum tubes.
  • micronutrients — Plural form of micronutrient.
  • micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
  • microtechnique — the art of preparing something so that it can properly be examined using a microscope
  • migrant-worker — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
  • militarisation — The process by which something such as an area of land or a function of government becomes dependent on or subordinate to the military, or military in its attributes or practices.
  • militarization — to equip with armed forces, military supplies, or the like.
  • mind the store — to tend to business
  • mineralisation — Alternative spelling of mineralization.
  • mineralization — to convert into a mineral substance.
  • miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
  • minicalculator — a very small handheld calculator
  • minilaparotomy — Surgery. laparotomy with a small incision into the abdomen, often no more than 1 inch (2.5 cm), used especially for tubal ligation.
  • minor prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets
  • minor sentence — any sentence that is not a true full sentence; a transformation by deletion from a full sentence.
  • minority group — minority (defs 3, 4).
  • mirror writing — backward writing that resembles a mirror image of ordinary script.
  • mirror-writing — backward writing that resembles a mirror image of ordinary script.
  • mis-coordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
  • misanthropists — Plural form of misanthropist.
  • misattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
  • misconstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstruct.
  • miscorrelation — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
  • misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
  • misdescription — an incorrect or misleading description
  • misimprovement — a flaw or shortcoming arising from an attempt to make better
  • misinformation — to give false or misleading information to.
  • misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • misinstruction — Wrong or improper instruction.
  • misorientation — a bad or incorrect orientation
  • misperceptions — Plural form of misperception.
  • misrecognition — Incorrect recognition.
  • mistranslation — An incorrect translation.
  • mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
  • modularization — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
  • moisturization — The act or process of moisturizing.
  • mongrelization — to subject (a breed, group, etc.) to crossbreeding, especially with one considered inferior.
  • monochromatism — the quality of having one color: the monochromatism of Picasso's Blue Period.
  • monocratically — In a monocratic manner.
  • monotransitive — In grammar, pertaining to a transitive verb that takes a single mandatory object, either a direct object or a primary object depending on the language.
  • montes veneris — mons veneris
  • morbid anatomy — the branch of medical science concerned with the study of the structure of diseased organs and tissues
  • morganatically — In a morganatic manner.
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