16-letter words containing s, i, m, u
- malpractice suit — a lawsuit brought against a professional accused of illegal or unethical practices or neglect of duty
- manipulativeness — Quality of being manipulative.
- marine insurance — ocean marine insurance.
- marriage customs — the acts that are traditionally done in connection with a marriage
- married quarters — the housing provided on a military base for married servicemen or servicewomen
- marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
- marsupialization — (surgery) The surgical technique of cutting a slit into a cyst and suturing its edges to form a continuous surface from the exterior to the interior of the cyst, allowing it to drain freely.
- masculine ending — a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
- mass destruction — devastation on a large scale
- maximilien sully — Maximilien de Béthune [mak-see-mee-lyan duh bey-tyn] /mak si miˈlyɛ̃ də beɪˈtün/ (Show IPA), Duc de, 1560–1641, French statesman.
- maximum-security — designed for or housing prisoners regarded as being very dangerous to society.
- measuring device — gauge
- medieval studies — a course of study based on the history of the Middle Ages
- menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
- mercuric sulfide — a crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous compound, HgS, occurring as a coarse, black powder (black mercuric sulfide) or as a fine, bright-scarlet powder (red mercuric sulfide) used chiefly as a pigment and as a source of the free metal.
- meretriciousness — alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.
- microconstituent — a microscopically small constituent of a metal or alloy.
- microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
- microinstruction — an instruction that defines part of a machine-language instruction in terms of simpler operations.
- microlinguistics — the branch of linguistics that is concerned with the study of languages in the abstract, and that looks at specific linguistic data without consideration of meaning
- microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
- middle latitudes — the latitude of the point that is midway between two parallels on the same side of the equator.
- 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
- minimum-security — (of a prison) designed for prisoners regarded as being less dangerous; having fewer restrictions.
- minute secretary — the person responsible for noting the minutes of a meeting
- miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
- miscommunication — Failure to communicate adequately.
- misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
- misconstructions — Plural form of misconstruction.
- mispronunciation — (uncountable) The act of mispronouncing.
- miss one's guess — to fail to guess or predict accurately
- missile launcher — system that fires missiles
- mistletoe cactus — a tropical, branched cactus, Rhipsalis baccifera (or cassutha), having cylindrical stems and mistletoelike fruit.
- misunderestimate — (colloquial, malapropism, or, intentionally incorrect) To underestimate by mistake.
- misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
- mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
- monoline insurer — insurer who pays the principal and interest on a bond in the event of a default
- montes apenninus — a mountain range in the first and second quadrants of the visible face of the moon, forming the SE border of Mare Imbrium: about 600 miles (970 km) long.
- mosquito netting — netting used in the making of mosquito nets.
- mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
- mount kosciuszko — a mountain in Australia, in SE New South Wales in the Australian Alps: the highest peak in Australia. Height: 2230 m (7316 ft)
- mount washington — a mountain in N New Hampshire, in the White Mountains: the highest peak in the northeast US; noted for extreme weather conditions. Height: 1917 m (6288 ft)
- mourne mountains — a mountain range in SE Northern Ireland. Highest peak: Slieve Donard, 853 m (2798 ft)
- mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
- mousseline sauce — a light sauce, made by adding whipped cream or egg whites to hollandaise sauce
- multi-discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- multiculturalism — the state or condition of being multicultural.
- multiculturalist — Pertaining to or advocating multiculturalism.