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14-letter words containing u, l, m

  • military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
  • millennium bug — Year 2000
  • miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • milligram hour — a unit of measure for a dose of radium expressed as the amount of radiation received by exposure to one milligram of radium for one hour.
  • milligram-hour — a unit of measure for a dose of radium expressed as the amount of radiation received by exposure to one milligram of radium for one hour.
  • milling cutter — any of various rotating toothed cutters used in a milling machine to cut or shape metal parts
  • mind uploading — (application)   The science fiction concept of copying one's mind into an artificial body or computer.
  • 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
  • minucius felix — Marcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
  • mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
  • miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
  • miscalculating — Present participle of miscalculate.
  • miscalculation — An act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgment.
  • miscounselling — the act of giving bad or incorrect counselling
  • misutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
  • mixed language — any language containing items of vocabulary or other linguistic characteristics borrowed from two or more existing languages
  • modular prolog — An interpreter for SB-Prolog version 3.1 extended with ML-style modules. Runs on SPARC. Distributed under GNU General Public License.
  • modularization — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
  • molecular beam — a stream of molecules freed from a substance, usually a salt, by evaporation and then passed through a narrow slit for focusing, for investigating the properties of nuclei, atoms, and molecules.
  • molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
  • molly maguires — a secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions
  • monolingualism — knowing or able to use only one language; monoglot.
  • mononucleotide — (genetics) A single nucleotide.
  • monumentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of monumentalize.
  • mosquito fleet — a group or fleet of PT boats or other small, armed boats.
  • mother-out-law — the mother of one's ex-husband or ex-wife
  • moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
  • mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
  • mount mckinley — a mountain in S central Alaska: highest peak in North America, 20,310 feet (6190 meters).
  • 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
  • mounted police — police who patrol on horseback
  • mounting-block — a block of stone formerly used to aid a person when mounting a horse
  • mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
  • much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
  • muddle through — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
  • muddleheadedly — In a muddleheaded manner.
  • mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
  • multarticulate — having multiple joints
  • 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-function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • 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-skilling — Multi-skilling is the practice of training employees to do a number of different tasks.
  • multi-talented — having talent or special ability; gifted.
  • multiarticular — of or relating to the joints.
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