14-letter words containing s, m, e, l, i
- ministerialist — A supporter of the ministers, or the party in power.
- minucius felix — Marcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
- miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- miscellanarian — a person who writes miscellanies
- 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.
- miscounselling — the act of giving bad or incorrect counselling
- misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
- mister charlie — a term used to refer to a white person.
- mistletoe bird — a small Australian flower-pecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that feeds on mistletoe berries
- mixed blessing — something that, although generally favorable or advantageous, has one or more unfavorable or disadvantageous features.
- mixed feelings — conflicted emotions
- modern english — the English language since c1475.
- modestly sized — moderately sized; not very large, but not small
- molly maguires — a secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions
- 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.
- monoglycerides — Plural form of monoglyceride.
- mont-st-michel — islet just off the NW coast of France, noted for its fortified abbey
- moon blindness — a disease of horses in which the eyes suffer from recurring attacks of inflammation, eventually resulting in opacity and blindness.
- moon jellyfish — a coelenterate, Aurelia aurita, inhabiting all seas, having a luminescent milky-pink or milky-orange, umbrellalike disk 3–9 inches (8–23 cm) in diameter.
- mortise chisel — framing chisel.
- mosquito fleet — a group or fleet of PT boats or other small, armed boats.
- motionlessness — The property of being motionless.
- 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
- 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 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.
- 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
- myelodysplasia — (medicine) Any of various conditions characterized by the faulty or inadequate production of bone marrow or blood cells.
- myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
- negri sembilan — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 2580 sq. mi. (6682 sq. km). Capital: Seremban.
- neil armstrong — (Daniel) Louis ("Satchmo") 1900–71, U.S. jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
- 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.
- neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
- neo-melanesian — a pidgin language based on English and spoken in Melanesia, New Guinea, and NE Australia.
- 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.
- 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.