16-letter words containing o, a, n, s
- misappropriating — Present participle of misappropriate.
- misappropriation — to put to a wrong use.
- miscommunication — Failure to communicate adequately.
- misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
- misogynistically — In a misogynistic manner.
- mispronunciation — (uncountable) The act of mispronouncing.
- mission-critical — essential for a project to launch
- missionary ridge — a ridge in NW Georgia and SE Tennessee: Civil War battle 1863.
- misspecification — An incorrect specification.
- mistranscription — the act or process of transcribing.
- modern languages — languages currently spoken
- monopolistically — In a monopolistic manner.
- monosyllabically — In single syllables.
- monotheistically — In a monotheistic manner.
- monotransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being monotransitive.
- montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
- montes apenninus — a mountain range in the first and second quadrants of the visible face of the moon, forming the SE border of Mare Imbrium: about 600 miles (970 km) long.
- month of sundays — a long time
- monumental mason — a person who makes gravestones and suchlike
- morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
- most wanted list — an actual or supposed listing of the names of persons who are urgently being sought for a specific reason, as apprehension for an alleged crime.
- mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- mount erymanthus — a mountain in SW Greece, in the NW Peloponnese. Height: 2224 m (7297 ft)
- mount washington — a mountain in N New Hampshire, in the White Mountains: the highest peak in the northeast US; noted for extreme weather conditions. Height: 1917 m (6288 ft)
- mourne mountains — a mountain range in SE Northern Ireland. Highest peak: Slieve Donard, 853 m (2798 ft)
- mousseline sauce — a light sauce, made by adding whipped cream or egg whites to hollandaise sauce
- mover and shaker — a person who has power and influence, esp., a member of a group having power and influence
- movies on demand — Movies on demand is a service that allows you to choose and watch a movie on your television.
- moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
- multidimensional — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
- multinationalism — a large corporation with operations and subsidiaries in several countries.
- musculocutaneous — of, relating to, or supplying the muscles and skin
- mutation testing — (testing) A method to determine test set thoroughness by measuring the extent to which a test set can discriminate the program from slight variants of the program.
- mutual exclusion — (parallel, operating system) (Or "mutex", plural: "mutexes") A collection of techniques for sharing resources so that different uses do not conflict and cause unwanted interactions. One of the most commonly used techniques for mutual exclusion is the semaphore.
- mutual recursion — recursion
- nanotechnologies — Plural form of nanotechnology.
- nanotechnologist — Someone who does research into nanotechnology; someone studying things on the scale of nanometers.
- narcotics charge — a criminal charge or accusation concerning the use or dealing of illegal drugs
- narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
- narrowmindedness — Alternative spelling of narrow-mindedness.
- nasal applicator — A nasal applicator is a device for administering medication through the nose.
- nassella tussock — type of tussock grass
- national costume — traditional dress
- national savings — a borrowing programme set up by the UK government, aimed esp at retail investors, and providing bonds, saving certificates, etc
- national service — National service is service in the armed forces, which young people in certain countries have to do by law.
- nationalizations — Plural form of nationalization.
- natural resource — a naturally occurring source of wealth, as land or water.
- neapolitan sixth — (in musical harmony) a chord composed of the subdominant of the key, plus a minor third and a minor sixth. Harmonically it is equivalent to the first inversion of a major chord built upon the flattened supertonic
- neo-christianity — any interpretation of Christianity based on the prevalent philosophy of a given period.