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15-letter words containing n, o, m, y

  • malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
  • malayan camphor — borneol.
  • malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
  • managed economy — an economy in which the government allocates prices of goods and resources
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
  • manorial system — manorialism.
  • marfan syndrome — a hereditary disorder characterized by abnormally elongated bones, especially in the extremities, hypermotility of the joints, and circulatory and eye abnormalities.
  • marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
  • meantone system — a system for tuning keyboard instruments, used before the development of tuning by equal temperament and considered practical only for tonalities of not more than two sharps or flats.
  • mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.
  • melancholically — disposed to or affected with melancholy; gloomy.
  • memory location — (storage)   A byte, word or other small unit of storage space in a computer's main memory that is identified by its starting address (and size).
  • metacognitively — In a metacognitive way.
  • methylcobalamin — A cobalamin used to treat neuropathies.
  • methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
  • methylheptenone — a colorless liquid, C 8 H 1 4 O, occurring in many essential oils and produced by synthesis: used in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of inexpensive perfumes.
  • methylpropanone — (organic compound) The industrial solvent butanone.
  • microanalytical — Of, pertaining to, or employing microanalysis.
  • microangiopathy — any disease of the small blood vessels.
  • microtechnology — technology that uses microelectronics
  • mind how you go — Some people say 'Mind how you go' when they are saying goodbye to someone who is leaving.
  • mineralogically — With regard to mineralogy.
  • minority leader — the party member who directs the activities of the minority party on the floor of a legislative body, as of the U.S. Congress.
  • minority report — a report by a minority of members of a group that disagrees with the official report issued by the group
  • miscellaneously — In a miscellaneous manner.
  • mixolydian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from G to G.
  • mock pennyroyal — pennyroyal (def 2).
  • monkey business — frivolous or mischievous behavior.
  • monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
  • monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
  • monomethylamine — methylamine.
  • monomolecularly — In monomolecular terms.
  • monospaced type — a typeface in which the width of all letters, including the space around them, is the same
  • monospecificity — the condition of being specific for a sole antigen
  • monosyllabicity — The state or characteristic of being monosyllabic.
  • montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
  • monthly meeting — (often initial capital letters) a district unit of local congregations of the Society of Friends.
  • morelos y pavon — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1765–1815, Mexican priest and revolutionary leader.
  • moreton bay ash — an Australian eucalyptus tree, E. tessellaris, having drooping branches and grey bark
  • moreton bay bug — a flattish edible shellfish, Thenus orientalis, of Northern Australian waters
  • moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
  • morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
  • morphophonology — morphophonemics (def 1).
  • morphosyntactic — involving both morphology and syntax.
  • mount cook lily — a large white buttercup, Ranunculus lyallii, of the South Island alpine country of New Zealand
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
  • multinationally — a large corporation with operations and subsidiaries in several countries.
  • multitudinously — In a multitudinous way.
  • murphy-o'connor — Cormac. born 1932, British cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster (2000–09)
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