14-letter words containing s, m, i, e
- 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
- 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.
- mysteriousness — full of, characterized by, or involving mystery: a mysterious occurrence.
- narcoterrorism — terrorist tactics employed by dealers in illicit drugs, as against competitors or government agents.
- necessarianism — (philosophy, metaphysics, theology) An extreme form of determinism that holds that all phenomena, including the will, are subject to immutable rules of cause and effect; necessitarianism.
- 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.
- nematodiriasis — the condition, esp in sheep, of having parasitic nematode worms of the genus Nematodirus in the small intestine
- neo-kantianism — Kantianism as modified by various philosophers.
- 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.
- neoromanticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) Fine Arts. a style of painting developed in the 20th century, chiefly characterized by forms or images that project a sense of nostalgia and fantasy.
- neuroanatomist — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- neurochemistry — the branch of science that is concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.
- neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
- neutral monism — the theory that mind and matter consist of different relations between entities that are themselves neither mental nor physical.
- never mind sth — You use never mind after a statement, often a negative one, to indicate that the statement is even more true of the person, thing, or situation that you are going to mention next.
- new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
- new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
- nietzscheanism — the philosophy of Nietzsche, emphasizing the will to power as the chief motivating force of both the individual and society.
- non-admissible — that may be allowed or conceded; allowable: an admissible plan.
- non-assumptive — taken for granted.
- non-customized — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- non-liberalism — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- non-submissive — inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants.
- noncombustible — not flammable.