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14-letter words containing t, u, l, a

  • lunatic asylum — psychiatric hospital
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
  • macrodactylous — related to or having macrodactyly
  • macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
  • magniloquently — In a magniloquent manner.
  • maladjustments — Plural form of maladjustment.
  • malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • manipulability — capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.
  • manipulatively — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
  • manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
  • manual testing — (testing)   That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
  • manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • marital status — whether or not one is married
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • material cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
  • maturity value — The maturity value of a life insurance policy is the amount of money that is paid out when it matures.
  • maturity yield — Finance. the rate of return on a bond expressed as a percentage that accounts for the difference between the interest earned based on current market value and that earned if the bond is held to maturity.
  • mcclure strait — an arm of the Beaufort Sea between Banks Island in the south and Melville Island and Eglinton Island to the north, in the Northwest Territories, Canada. About 170 miles (270 km) long and 60 miles (90 km) wide.
  • melastomaceous — belonging to the family Melastomataceae (also known as Melastomaceae)
  • mental cruelty — behaviour that causes distress to another person but that does not involve physical assault
  • merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
  • metal paste-up — a method for making up a form for printing in which engravings mounted on blocks are positioned on and pasted to a metal base.
  • metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
  • metatextuality — A form of intertextual discourse in which one text makes critical commentary on another.
  • methoxyflurane — a potent substance, C 3 H 4 Cl 2 F 2 O, used as an analgesic in minor surgical procedures and less frequently as a general anesthetic.
  • metrosexuality — The quality of being metrosexual.
  • micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
  • milieu therapy — a type of inpatient therapy, used in psychiatric hospitals, involving prescription of particular activities and social interactions according to a patient's emotional and interpersonal needs.
  • military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
  • miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
  • minicalculator — a very small handheld calculator
  • mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
  • miscalculating — Present participle of miscalculate.
  • miscalculation — An act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgment.
  • misutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
  • modularization — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
  • monumentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of monumentalize.
  • mother-out-law — the mother of one's ex-husband or ex-wife
  • mount pleasant — a city in central Michigan.
  • mount wrangell — a mountain in S Alaska, in the W Wrangell Mountains. Height: 4269 m (14 005 ft)
  • mountain nyala — a similar and related Ethiopian animal, T. buxtoni, lacking the white crest
  • much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
  • multarticulate — having multiple joints
  • multi-location — the state or power of being in more than two places at the same time.
  • multi-part key — compound key
  • multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • multi-talented — having talent or special ability; gifted.
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