15-letter words containing s, o, r, i
- misappropriated — to put to a wrong use.
- misappropriates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misappropriate.
- misarticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
- miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
- misconstruction — wrong construction; misinterpretation: to put a misconstruction upon an action.
- miscoordinating — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- miscoordination — Lack of coordination.
- misdistribution — Incorrect or unfair distribution.
- misproportioned — Having incorrect or distorted proportions.
- misrecollection — the act or power of recollecting, or recalling to mind; remembrance.
- misregistration — the act of registering.
- mission control — a command center for the control, monitoring, and support of activities connected with manned space flight.
- mitral stenosis — abnormal narrowing of the mitral valve usually resulting from disease, as rheumatic fever, and obstructing the free flow of blood from the atrium to the ventricle.
- moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
- modestly priced — moderately priced; not overly expensive
- mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
- molecular sieve — a compound with molecule-size pores, as some sodium aluminum silicates, that chemically locks molecules in them: used in purification and separation processes.
- monoculturalism — The practice of actively preserving a culture to the exclusion of external influences.
- monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
- montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
- montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
- morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
- more's the pity — If you add more's the pity to a comment, you are expressing your disappointment or regret about something.
- morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
- morning service — a regular church service in the mornng
- morphophonemics — Also called morphonology, morphophonology. the study of the relations between morphemes and their phonological realizations, components, or mappings.
- morphosyntactic — involving both morphology and syntax.
- mortiferousness — deadliness
- mother superior — the head of a Christian religious community for women.
- motor insurance — insurance for a motor vehicle such as a car, which provides protection against loss in the event of an accident, theft, etc
- motoring school — an organization that provides driving lessons
- mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
- mountain rescue — search and rescue conducted on a mountain, for example of someone who has fallen, got lost, etc
- mouse droppings — 1. (graphics, operating system, jargon) Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2. (web, jargon) The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.
- moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
- mules operation — the surgical removal of folds of skin in the breech of a sheep to reduce blowfly strike
- multiflora rose — a climbing or trailing rose, Rosa multiflora, of Japan and Korea, having hooked prickles and fragrant, dense clusters of flowers.
- multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
- multiprocessors — Plural form of multiprocessor.
- muslim brothers — an organization founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hasan al-Banna (1906–49), calling for a return to rigid orthodoxy, the overthrow of secular governments, and a restoration of the theocratic state.
- myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
- myristicivorous — feeding on nutmeg
- name resolution — (networking) The process of mapping a name into its corresponding address. The Domain Name System is the system which does name resolution on the Internet.
- nanocrystalline — Of, pertaining to, or composed of nanocrystals.
- napoleonic wars — French-led war in early 19th century
- narcotics agent — an undercover agent who provides information to the police about illegal drugs, illegal drug trafficking, and users of illegal drugs
- narcotics squad — a department of the police which investigates crimes concerning illegal drugs
- nasopharyngitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the nasal passages, and of the upper pharynx.
- national forest — forested land owned, maintained, and preserved by the U.S. government.
- natural history — the sciences, as botany, mineralogy, or zoology, dealing with the study of all objects in nature: used especially in reference to the beginnings of these sciences in former times.