14-letter words containing s, m, a, l, t
- miscalculating — Present participle of miscalculate.
- miscalculation — An act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgment.
- 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.
- mister charlie — a term used to refer to a white person.
- mistranslating — Present participle of mistranslate.
- mistranslation — An incorrect translation.
- misutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- moment of sail — the product of a given area of sail, taken as the maximum safe area, and the vertical distance from the center of effort and the center of lateral resistance.
- monophysitical — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- monopolisation — Alternative spelling of monopolization.
- morale booster — You can refer to something that makes people feel more confident and cheerful as a morale booster.
- moralistically — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
- morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
- mount pleasant — a city in central Michigan.
- movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
- moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
- multinationals — Plural form of multinational.
- 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).
- multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
- musca volitans — floater (def 6).
- music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
- musicalization — the adaptation of a novel, play, etc into a musical form
- mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
- 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
- myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
- neil armstrong — (Daniel) Louis ("Satchmo") 1900–71, U.S. jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
- neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
- neutral monism — the theory that mind and matter consist of different relations between entities that are themselves neither mental nor physical.
- nominalisation — Standard spelling of nominalization.
- non-malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- non-naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.
- nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
- nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
- numeral system — any notation for the representation of numerals or numbers.
- numismatically — Of or relating to coins or currency.
- ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
- old-man cactus — a Mexican cactus, Cephalocereus senilis, having a columnar body from 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 meters) high with thatchlike, long, white hairs on the top, and red flowers with white centers.
- omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
- operationalism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
- ophthalmoscope — an instrument for viewing the interior of the eye or examining the retina.
- ophthalmoscopy — the use of or technique of using an ophthalmoscope.