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16-letter words containing r, e, c, a, t, i

  • mercantile paper — commercial paper.
  • mercator sailing — sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.
  • merchant service — A merchant service is a provider of credit card processing services.
  • meristematically — In a meristematic way.
  • meritocratically — In a meritocratic way.
  • meteorite crater — crater (def 2).
  • meteorologically — In meteorological terms; in the context of weather.
  • methacrylic acid — a colorless, liquid acid, C 4 H 6 O 2 , produced synthetically, whose methyl ester, methyl methacrylate, polymerizes to yield a clear plastic.
  • mexican fruitfly — a brightly colored fly, Anastrepha ludens, whose larvae are a serious pest chiefly of citrus fruits and mangoes in Mexico, Central America, and southern Texas.
  • microcrystalline — minutely crystalline; composed of microscopic crystals.
  • microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
  • microgametophyte — (biology) Any gametophyte that develops from a microspore.
  • microlepidoptera — a collector's name for the smaller moths: a term without taxonomic significance
  • microminiaturize — (especially of electronic equipment) to make extremely small; subject to microminiaturization.
  • microsoft access — 1.   (database)   A relational database running under Microsoft Windows. Data is stored as a number of "tables", e.g. "Stock". Each table consists of a number of "records" (e.g. for different items) and each record contains a number of "fields", e.g. "Product code", "Supplier", "Quantity in stock". Access allows the user to create "forms" and "reports". A form shows one record in a user-designed format and allows the user to step through records one at a time. A report shows selected records in a user-designed format, possibly grouped into sections with different kinds of total (including sum, minimum, maximum, average). There are also facilities to use links ("joins") between tables which share a common field and to filter records according to certain criteria or search for particular field values. Version: 2 (date?). 2.   (communications)   A communications program from Microsoft, meant to compete with ProComm and other programs. It sucked and was dropped. Years later they reused the name for their database.
  • microtransmitter — a small electronic device which transmits television or radio signals
  • microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
  • military academy — a private school organized somewhat along the lines of and following some of the procedures of military life.
  • military attache — attaché (def 2).
  • military science — the study of the causative factors and tactical principles of warfare.
  • military service — compulsory period spent in the army
  • miniature camera — a small camera using film that is 35 millimeters wide or less.
  • minority carrier — the entity responsible for carrying the lesser part of the current in a semiconductor
  • minute secretary — the person responsible for noting the minutes of a meeting
  • molecular weight — the average weight of a molecule of an element or compound measured in units once based on the weight of one hydrogen atom taken as the standard or on 1/16 (0.0625) the weight of an oxygen atom, but after 1961 based on 1/12 (0.083) the weight of the carbon-12 atom; the sum of the atomic weights of all the atoms in a molecule. Abbreviation: mol. wt.
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  • multicellularity — The condition of being multicellular.
  • multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • multituberculate — a rodentlike mammal of the extinct order Multituberculata, which lived from the late Jurassic Period to the Oligocene Epoch, reaching the size of a woodchuck and having molars with two or three rows of simple pointed cusps.
  • musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
  • mutual insurance — insurance in which those insured become members of a company who reciprocally engage, by payment of certain amounts into a common fund, to indemnify one another against loss.
  • mutual recursion — recursion
  • narcotics charge — a criminal charge or accusation concerning the use or dealing of illegal drugs
  • narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
  • national charter — the principles or movement of a party of political reformers, chiefly workingmen, in England from 1838 to 1848: so called from the document (People's Charter or National Charter) that contained a statement of their principles and demands.
  • national service — National service is service in the armed forces, which young people in certain countries have to do by law.
  • native americans — a person born in the United States.
  • nature-identical — manufactured to be identical to a natural substance
  • necessitarianism — the doctrine that all events, including acts of the will, are determined by antecedent causes; determinism.
  • neo-christianity — any interpretation of Christianity based on the prevalent philosophy of a given period.
  • neo-conservatism — (in the US) a right-wing tendency that originated amongst supporters of the political left and has become characterized by its support of hawkish foreign policies
  • neoconservatives — Plural form of neoconservative.
  • neurasthenically — In a neurasthenic way.
  • neuropsychiatric — Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; simultaneously neurological and psychiatric.
  • nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
  • nitrous bacteria — bacteria that convert ammonia to nitrites in the soil
  • no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
  • non-bureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
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