15-letter words containing n, o, s, d
- levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
- line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
- line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
- loaded question — a question containing a hidden trap or implication
- lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
- lose one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
- louis d'orleans — Louis Philippe Joseph [lwee fee-leep zhaw-zef] /lwi fiˈlip ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), Duc (Philippe Égalité) 1747–93, French political leader.
- loving-kindness — tender kindness motivated by or expressing affection.
- loyalty islands — a group of coral islands in the S Pacific belonging to the French territory of New Caledonia. 761 sq. mi. (1970 sq. km).
- madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
- magnesium oxide — magnesia.
- maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
- make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
- man of his word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- manganese oxide — a type of metallic oxide used to colour glass purple
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- marfan syndrome — a hereditary disorder characterized by abnormally elongated bones, especially in the extremities, hypermotility of the joints, and circulatory and eye abnormalities.
- marsh andromeda — a low-growing pink-flowered ericaceous evergreen shrub, Andromeda polifolia, that grows in peaty bogs of northern regions
- mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- means to an end — method of achieving sth
- 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.
- mental disorder — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
- microdissection — dissection performed under a microscope.
- milk of almonds — almond milk.
- minkowski world — a four-dimensional space in which the fourth coordinate is time and in which a single event is represented as a point.
- miscommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscommunicate.
- miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
- miscoordinating — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- miscoordination — Lack of coordination.
- misdistribution — Incorrect or unfair distribution.
- misproportioned — Having incorrect or distorted proportions.
- mitotic spindle — spindle (def 11).
- mohandas gandhi — Indira [in-deer-uh] /ɪnˈdɪər ə/ (Show IPA), 1917–84, Indian political leader: prime minister 1966–77 and 1980–84 (daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru).
- mole salamander — ambystomid.
- monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
- mononucleotides — Plural form of mononucleotide.
- monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
- monospaced type — a typeface in which the width of all letters, including the space around them, is the same
- monosubstituted — containing one substituent.
- monounsaturated — of or noting a class of fats that lack a hydrogen bond at one point on the carbon chain and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
- 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.
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- multidivisional — Of or pertaining to more than one division.
- multitudinously — In a multitudinous way.
- municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- muscat and oman — former name of Oman.