14-letter words containing o, n, i, u, m
- microevolution — evolutionary change involving the gradual accumulation of mutations leading to new varieties within a species.
- microinsurance — (insurance) A type of microfinancial service aimed at low-income people and communities, and typified by low premiums and coverage limits.
- 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
- midwall column — a column or the like carrying a wall overhanging it on both sides.
- mind uploading — (application) The science fiction concept of copying one's mind into an artificial body or computer.
- 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
- minority group — minority (defs 3, 4).
- miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- miscalculation — An act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgment.
- miscommunicate — (ambitransitive) To communicate incorrectly.
- miscomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- misconstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstruct.
- miscounselling — the act of giving bad or incorrect counselling
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- misinstruction — Wrong or improper instruction.
- mispronouncing — Present participle of mispronounce.
- mispunctuation — incorrect punctuation
- misutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- modularization — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
- moisturization — The act or process of moisturizing.
- money-grubbing — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- monolingualism — knowing or able to use only one language; monoglot.
- mononucleotide — (genetics) A single nucleotide.
- monumentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of monumentalize.
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- motion capture — a process by which a device can be used to capture patterns of live movement; the data is then transmitted to a computer, where simulation software displays it applied to a virtual actor
- motion picture — a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion-picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion-picture projector) in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement.
- motor industry — the manufacturers of cars viewed as a sector
- moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
- mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
- mount mckinley — a mountain in S central Alaska: highest peak in North America, 20,310 feet (6190 meters).
- 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