14-letter words containing o, r, s, i
- missing person — sb who has disappeared
- missouri river — a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). Capital: Jefferson City. Abbreviation: MO (for use with zip code), Mo.
- mistletoe bird — a small Australian flower-pecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that feeds on mistletoe berries
- mistranslation — An incorrect translation.
- mixed foursome — a foursome of two teams, each comprised of a man and a woman.
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- moderate-sized — not large or small
- modern english — the English language since c1475.
- modern persian — the Persian language since the Middle Persian stage.
- modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
- moisturization — The act or process of moisturizing.
- molly maguires — a secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions
- monochromatism — the quality of having one color: the monochromatism of Picasso's Blue Period.
- monodispersive — Monodisperse.
- monoglycerides — Plural form of monoglyceride.
- monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
- 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
- moralistically — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
- morbid obesity — a state of obesity in which the body mass index is between 40 and 49.9 kg/m2
- morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
- morris dancing — Morris dancing is a type of old English country dancing which is performed by people wearing special costumes.
- mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
- mortise chisel — framing chisel.
- mother shipton — a day-flying noctuid moth, Callistege mi, mottled brown in colour and named from a fancied resemblance between its darker marking and a haggish profile
- motor industry — the manufacturers of cars viewed as a sector
- motor-assisted — mechanically assisted by a motor
- 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
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
- multiple store — chain store.
- multiprocessor — parallel processing
- multireligious — belonging to or following more than one religion
- multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- music director — The music director of an orchestra or other group of musicians is the person who decides what they will play and where, and usually conducts them as well.
- muster station — the place on a ship where passengers should assemble in the event of an emergency
- myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
- myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
- mysteriousness — full of, characterized by, or involving mystery: a mysterious occurrence.
- napier's bones — a form of multiplication table originally marked on sticks of bone or ivory that could be rearranged to carry out the operations of multiplication or division.
- narcocatharsis — a technique in narcoanalysis in which the patient is encouraged to reveal suppressed emotions or memories with the aid of narcotic drugs
- narcodiagnosis — the use of drugs to produce narcosis as an aid in diagnosis.
- narcosynthesis — a treatment for psychiatric disturbances that uses narcotics.
- narcoterrorism — terrorist tactics employed by dealers in illicit drugs, as against competitors or government agents.
- national dress — the traditional clothing of a country
- national press — newspapers which concern national events of a country collectively
- national trust — (in Britain) an organization concerned with the preservation of historic buildings and monuments and areas of the countryside of great beauty in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1895 and incorporated by act of parliament in 1907. The National Trust for Scotland was founded in 1931
- naturalisation — Alternative spelling of naturalization.
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.