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16-letter words containing r, m, a, i

  • missile launcher — system that fires missiles
  • mission-critical — essential for a project to launch
  • missionary ridge — a ridge in NW Georgia and SE Tennessee: Civil War battle 1863.
  • mistranscription — the act or process of transcribing.
  • misunderestimate — (colloquial, malapropism, or, intentionally incorrect) To underestimate by mistake.
  • misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • modern icelandic — the Icelandic language since c1550.
  • modified-release — denoting a formulation of a medicinal drug taken orally that releases the active ingredients over several hours, in order to maintain a relatively constant plasma concentration of the drug
  • 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.
  • money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
  • monochromaticity — of or having one color.
  • monotransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being monotransitive.
  • montpelier maple — a maple, Acer monspessulanum, that is native to southern Europe and Northwest Africa
  • moral philosophy — philosophy dealing with the principles of morality; ethics.
  • morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • mourne mountains — a mountain range in SE Northern Ireland. Highest peak: Slieve Donard, 853 m (2798 ft)
  • moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  • multi-way branch — switch statement
  • multicellularity — The condition of being multicellular.
  • multiculturalism — the state or condition of being multicultural.
  • multiculturalist — Pertaining to or advocating multiculturalism.
  • multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
  • multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
  • multilinear form — a function or functional of several variables such that when all variables but one are held fixed, the function is linear in the remaining variable.
  • multimillionaire — a person who possesses a fortune that amounts to many millions of dollars, francs, etc.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • multiprogramming — multitasking
  • 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.
  • munching squares — A display hack dating back to the PDP-1 (ca. 1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T - see HAKMEM items 146--148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen. The initial value of T is treated as a parameter, which, when well-chosen, can produce amazing effects. Some of these, later (re)discovered on the LISP Machine, have been christened "munching triangles" (try AND for XOR and toggling points instead of plotting them), "munching w's", and "munching mazes". More generally, suppose a graphics program produces an impressive and ever-changing display of some basic form, foo, on a display terminal, and does it using a relatively simple program; then the program (or the resulting display) is likely to be referred to as "munching foos". [This is a good example of the use of the word foo as a metasyntactic variable.]
  • murasaki shikibu — Lady, 978?–1031? Japanese poet and novelist.
  • 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
  • narrowmindedness — Alternative spelling of narrow-mindedness.
  • nash equilibrium — (in game theory) a stable state of a system involving the interaction of two or more players in which no player can gain by a unilateral change of strategy if the strategies of the other players remain unchanged
  • native americans — a person born in the United States.
  • natural immunity — immunity that is present without prior immunization.
  • necessitarianism — the doctrine that all events, including acts of the will, are determined by antecedent causes; determinism.
  • 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
  • neuroepithelioma — Neurocytoma.
  • neurotransmitter — any of several chemical substances, as epinephrine or acetylcholine, that transmit nerve impulses across a synapse to a postsynaptic element, as another nerve, muscle, or gland.
  • new frontiersman — an advocate or follower of the New Frontier, especially one in public service.
  • nibble mode dram — (storage)   A standard DRAM where four successive bits can be clocked out of the single data line by successive pulses on the CAS\ line while RAS\ is active. A column address is only required for the first bit. This mode is now unfashionable but can be found on some older 64 kilobit and 256 kilobit chips.
  • nitrogen mustard — any of the class of poisonous, blistering compounds, as C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, analogous in composition to mustard gas but containing nitrogen instead of sulfur: used in the treatment of cancer and similar diseases; mechlorethamine.
  • nomination paper — a document containing signatures guaranteeing the proposal of somebody as a candidate in an election
  • non-confirmation — the act of confirming.
  • non-confirmatory — serving to confirm; corroborative.
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