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15-letter words containing t, r, e, m

  • microsoft excel — (tool)   A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world.
  • microsporocytes — Plural form of microsporocyte.
  • microstructures — Plural form of microstructure.
  • microtechnology — technology that uses microelectronics
  • microtunnelling — a technique used to excavate tunnels mechanically for the laying of pipes
  • midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
  • mignonette tree — henna (sense 1)
  • military police — soldiers who perform police duties
  • miner's lettuce — winter purslane.
  • mineral spirits — a volatile distillation product of petroleum, used as a thinner for paints and varnishes. Compare naphtha (def 1).
  • ministerialists — Plural form of ministerialist.
  • minority leader — the party member who directs the activities of the minority party on the floor of a legislative body, as of the U.S. Congress.
  • minority report — a report by a minority of members of a group that disagrees with the official report issued by the group
  • mirror symmetry — symmetry about a plane (mirror plane) that divides the object or system into two mutual mirror images
  • mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • mis-measurement — the act of measuring.
  • misappreciation — failure to appreciate something fully or properly
  • misappreciative — not fully or properly appreciative
  • misappropriated — to put to a wrong use.
  • misappropriates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misappropriate.
  • mischaracterize — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
  • misinterpreting — Present participle of misinterpret.
  • misproportioned — Having incorrect or distorted proportions.
  • misrecollection — the act or power of recollecting, or recalling to mind; remembrance.
  • misregistration — the act of registering.
  • misrepresenting — Present participle of misrepresent.
  • mistrustfulness — Quality of being mistrustful.
  • mitigate a risk — If something or someone mitigates a risk, they make the effects of a loss or risk less unpleasant, harmful, or serious.
  • 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.
  • mixture quality — Mixture quality is the degree to which a mixture is an ideal mixture.
  • moderate breeze — a wind of 13–18 miles per hour (5.8–8 m/sec).
  • moderate-income — of or relating to those with a close-to-average income within the overall population.
  • modestly priced — moderately priced; not overly expensive
  • modulo operator — (mathematics)   (mod) The operator that returns the remainder after integer division of its first argument by its second. Written as "%" in C and some other languages. Where the second argument is a power of two, the result can be calculated much more quickly using bitwise and with the appropriate bit-mask.
  • moment of truth — the moment in a bullfight at which the matador is about to make the kill.
  • monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
  • monounsaturated — of or noting a class of fats that lack a hydrogen bond at one point on the carbon chain and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
  • monroe doctrine — the policy, as stated by President Monroe in 1823, that the U.S. opposed further European colonization of and interference with independent nations in the Western Hemisphere.
  • 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.
  • montmorillonite — any of a group of clay minerals characterized by the ability to expand when they absorb large quantities of water.
  • moral turpitude — conduct that is regarded as immoral.
  • morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
  • morbidity table — A morbidity table is a statistical table that shows the proportion of people that are expected to become sick or injured at each age.
  • more's the pity — If you add more's the pity to a comment, you are expressing your disappointment or regret about something.
  • moreton bay ash — an Australian eucalyptus tree, E. tessellaris, having drooping branches and grey bark
  • moreton bay bug — a flattish edible shellfish, Thenus orientalis, of Northern Australian waters
  • moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
  • morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
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