16-letter words containing s, i, l, t, o
- microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
- middle stone age — the Mesolithic period.
- migratory locust — any of several locusts that migrate in great swarms, especially Locusta migratoria, of Africa and Asia.
- military honours — ceremonies performed by troops in honour of royalty, at the burial of an officer, etc
- mineral deposits — amounts of minerals that occur naturally in particular areas
- miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
- misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
- misogynistically — In a misogynistic manner.
- mission-critical — essential for a project to launch
- mistletoe cactus — a tropical, branched cactus, Rhipsalis baccifera (or cassutha), having cylindrical stems and mistletoelike fruit.
- mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
- monopolistically — In a monopolistic manner.
- monotheistically — In a monotheistic manner.
- mos technologies — MOS Technology
- most wanted list — an actual or supposed listing of the names of persons who are urgently being sought for a specific reason, as apprehension for an alleged crime.
- mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
- multidimensional — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
- multinationalism — a large corporation with operations and subsidiaries in several countries.
- multiple factors — polygene.
- multiple fission — fission into more than two new organisms.
- musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
- mutual exclusion — (parallel, operating system) (Or "mutex", plural: "mutexes") A collection of techniques for sharing resources so that different uses do not conflict and cause unwanted interactions. One of the most commonly used techniques for mutual exclusion is the semaphore.
- mutual recursion — recursion
- nanotechnologies — Plural form of nanotechnology.
- nanotechnologist — Someone who does research into nanotechnology; someone studying things on the scale of nanometers.
- nasal applicator — A nasal applicator is a device for administering medication through the nose.
- national costume — traditional dress
- national savings — a borrowing programme set up by the UK government, aimed esp at retail investors, and providing bonds, saving certificates, etc
- national service — National service is service in the armed forces, which young people in certain countries have to do by law.
- nationalizations — Plural form of nationalization.
- neapolitan sixth — (in musical harmony) a chord composed of the subdominant of the key, plus a minor third and a minor sixth. Harmonically it is equivalent to the first inversion of a major chord built upon the flattened supertonic
- network analysis — a mathematical method of analyzing complex problems, as in transportation or project scheduling, by representing the problem as a network of lines and nodes.
- neurolinguistics — the study of the neurological processes underlying the development and use of language.
- neuropathologies — the pathology of the nervous system.
- neuropathologist — A specialist who practices neuropathology.
- nitrosylsulfuric — of or derived from nitrosylsulfuric acid.
- nominal sentence — a sentence consisting of a subject and complement without a linking verb, as Very interesting, those books.
- non-assimilation — the act or process of assimilating, or of absorbing information, experiences, etc.: the need for quick assimilation of the facts.
- non-instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
- non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- non-naturalistic — imitating nature or the usual natural surroundings.
- non-solicitation — the act of soliciting.
- non-transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- noncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
- nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
- noninstitutional — Not institutional; not having the usual characteristics of an institution.
- nontransmissible — Not transmissible.
- nontransmittable — Not transmittable.