14-letter words containing s, c, i, a, m
- microsporangia — Plural form of microsporangium.
- microsporidian — Any of many parasites, of the class Microsporidia, that are very small fungi.
- microstomatous — having an unusually small mouth
- mie scattering — the scattering of light by particles that are large relative to the wavelength of the light.
- minicoy island — a small island in the S Laccadive Islands, off the SW coast of India. 1.25 sq. mi. (3.24 sq. km).
- miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- mis-coordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- misacceptation — misinterpretation
- misallocations — Plural form of misallocation.
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- misapplication — to make a wrong application or use of.
- miscalculating — Present participle of miscalculate.
- miscalculation — An act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgment.
- miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- miscellanarian — a person who writes miscellanies
- mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
- misclassifying — Present participle of misclassify.
- miscommunicate — (ambitransitive) To communicate incorrectly.
- miscomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- miscorrelation — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
- misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- mispunctuation — incorrect punctuation
- misremembrance — An incorrect remembrance; something remembered wrongly.
- mister charlie — a term used to refer to a white person.
- mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- monochromatism — the quality of having one color: the monochromatism of Picasso's Blue Period.
- monophysitical — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
- moralistically — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
- 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.
- mosaic disease — a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
- mosquito coast — a coastal region in Central America bordering on the Caribbean Sea, E of Honduras and Nicaragua.
- multiracialism — The promotion of a diverse society composed of various races with different cultural backgrounds.
- multisectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- multispecialty — (US) Exhibiting or possessing multiple specialties (especially medical specialties).
- musca volitans — floater (def 6).
- museologically — In a museological manner.
- music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
- musical chairs — Also called going to Jerusalem. a game in which players march to music around two rows of chairs placed back to back, there being one chair less than the number of players, the object being to find a seat when the music stops abruptly. The player failing to do so is removed from the game, together with one chair, at each interval.
- musical comedy — musical (def 5).
- musicalization — the adaptation of a novel, play, etc into a musical form
- mutual society — co-operative organization
- narcoterrorism — terrorist tactics employed by dealers in illicit drugs, as against competitors or government agents.
- necessarianism — (philosophy, metaphysics, theology) An extreme form of determinism that holds that all phenomena, including the will, are subject to immutable rules of cause and effect; necessitarianism.
- neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
- neocolonialism — the policy of a strong nation in seeking political and economic hegemony over an independent nation or extended geographical area without necessarily reducing the subordinate nation or area to the legal status of a colony.