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- miter square — an instrument for laying out miter joints, consisting of two straightedges joined at a 45° angle.
- mitrailleuse — a machine gun.
- mitre square — a tool with two blades that are at a fixed angle to one another, used to bevel a mitre joint
- mornay sauce — a rich white sauce to which grated cheese, usually Swiss or Parmesan, and seasonings have been added
- mountaineers — Plural form of mountaineer.
- mouse around — To explore public portions of a large system, especially a network such as Internet via FTP or TELNET, looking for interesting stuff to snarf.
- mouse arrest — (jargon) Getting busted for violating an on-line service's rule of conduct. "Sorry I couldn't get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest."
- mouse trails — (operating system) A feature (usually of Graphical User Interfaces) which causes the mouse pointer to leave a trail across the screen. This is done by keeping track of the last eight or so (maybe configurable) pointer positions, and only erasing the oldest. This means that at any time, there may be up to eight pointers on the screen, but if the mouse is still, they will all be in the same position, and so only one will be visible. When the mouse moves, it appears to leave a trail of pointers behind it, and this can dramatically increase the visibility of the pointer when using LCD screens. The older ones had such long persistence that a single mouse pointer, when moving, tended to be completely invisible, and on a cluttered screen, was very difficult to find.
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- mousquetaire — musketeer.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- multiseriate — arranged or occurring in one or more series.
- multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
- murder squad — the section of a police force that is responsible for dealing with murders
- musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- mutessarifat — a province governed by a mutessarif
- nature strip — a grass strip in front of a house between a fence or footpath and a roadway
- nature study — the study of plants and animals, especially by amateurs.
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- net curtains — curtains made of a thin light mesh fabric of cotton, nylon, or other fibre
- neural crest — a group of ectodermal cells that develop into a variety of tissues, including spinal and autonomic ganglia, connective tissue around the brain and spinal cord, and parts of the facial bones.
- neurasthenia — Psychiatry. (not in technical use) nervous debility and exhaustion occurring in the absence of objective causes or lesions; nervous exhaustion.
- neurasthenic — pertaining to or suffering from neurasthenia.
- neuropathies — Plural form of neuropathy.
- neuropathist — a specialist in treating diseases of the nervous system; a neurologist
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- neurosarcoma — A malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, a form of cancer of the connective tissue surrounding nerves.
- neutral axis — an imaginary line in the cross section of a beam, shaft, or the like, along which no stresses occur.
- neutralising — Present participle of neutralise.
- neutralistic — Employing or relating to neutralism.
- neutron star — an extremely dense, compact star composed primarily of neutrons, especially the collapsed core of a supernova.
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- non-residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- noncancerous — (of tissue) not cancerous, benign
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- noninsurance — the condition or state of not having insurance
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nuclear test — a test carried out on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
- nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
- numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- nurse's aide — a person who assists professional nurses, as in a hospital, by performing such routine tasks as making beds and serving meals.
- nurserymaids — Plural form of nurserymaid.
- nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
- oamaru stone — a kind of limestone, of building quality, found at Oamaru on South Island, New Zealand
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- oracularness — the state of being oracular
- oral surgery — the branch of dentistry or of surgery dealing with the surgical treatment or repair of various conditions of the mouth or jaws.
- orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
- orichalceous — relating to or resembling orichalc