14-letter words containing s, i, e, u
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
- molly maguires — a secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions
- mosquito fleet — a group or fleet of PT boats or other small, armed boats.
- 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
- 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 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.
- multi-cultures — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- multiple store — chain store.
- multiplicities — Plural form of multiplicity.
- multiprocessor — parallel processing
- multireligious — belonging to or following more than one religion
- multisectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- multispecialty — (US) Exhibiting or possessing multiple specialties (especially medical specialties).
- multiversities — Plural form of multiversity.
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- muscle spindle — Cell Biology. a proprioceptor in skeletal muscle, composed of striated muscle fibers and sensory nerve endings in a connective tissue sheath, that conveys information via the spinal nerves on the state of muscle stretch, important in the reflex mechanism that maintains body posture.
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- museologically — In a museological manner.
- 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.
- music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
- musical comedy — musical (def 5).
- muslin delaine — mousseline de laine.
- muster station — the place on a ship where passengers should assemble in the event of an emergency
- mutual insurer — A mutual insurer is an insurance company which is owned by its members or policyholders rather than by shareholders.
- mutual society — co-operative organization
- myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
- mysteriousness — full of, characterized by, or involving mystery: a mysterious occurrence.
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
- neo-surrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
- neolinguistics — a school of linguistics centered in Italy emphasizing the importance of linguistic geography in diachronic studies.
- nervous nellie — a constantly nervous, worried, or timid person.
- neuroanatomist — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
- neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- neurochemistry — the branch of science that is concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.
- neurodiversity — the variation and differences in neurological structure and function that exist among human beings, especially when viewed as being normal and natural rather than pathological: recognizing autism as an example of neurodiversity.
- neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
- neuroscientist — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.
- neurosecretion — a chemical secreted by a nerve cell.
- neutral monism — the theory that mind and matter consist of different relations between entities that are themselves neither mental nor physical.
- neutralisation — The act of neutralising.
- neutron poison — a nonfissionable material used to absorb neutrons and thus to control nuclear reactions
- new australian — an immigrant to Australia, esp one whose native tongue is not English
- new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
- nitrocellulose — cellulose nitrate.