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14-letter words containing u, n, c, i, r, m

  • misinstruction — Wrong or improper instruction.
  • mispronouncing — Present participle of mispronounce.
  • mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • motion capture — a process by which a device can be used to capture patterns of live movement; the data is then transmitted to a computer, where simulation software displays it applied to a virtual actor
  • motion picture — a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion-picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion-picture projector) in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement.
  • mount victoria — a mountain in SE Papua New Guinea: the highest peak of the Owen Stanley Range. Height: 4073 m (13 363 ft)
  • mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
  • moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
  • 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
  • multicollinear — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting multicollinearity.
  • multiconductor — having or involving several electrical conductors
  • multifrequency — Of or pertaining to multiple frequencies.
  • musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
  • neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
  • neurochemistry — the branch of science that is concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.
  • neurocomputing — computing that makes use of neural networks
  • neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
  • nitro compound — any one of a class of usually organic compounds that contain the monovalent group -NO2 (nitro group or radical), linked to a carbon atom. The commonest example is nitrobenzene, C6H5NO2
  • nitrobacterium — Any of the several genera of bacteria in soil that take part in the nitrogen cycle, oxidizing ammonium and organic nitrogen compounds to the more soluble nitrite and nitrate.
  • nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
  • nuclear isomer — isomer (def 2).
  • numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
  • numidian crane — the demoiselle crane
  • obstructionism — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
  • ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
  • over-consuming — to destroy or expend by use; use up.
  • pneumatic tire — wheel cover filled with pressurized air
  • pneumatic tyre — a rubber tyre filled with air under pressure, used esp on motor vehicles
  • premium income — An insurer's premium income is the income that it earns from premiums.
  • pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
  • pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
  • put a crimp in — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
  • quasi-criminal — of the nature of or involving crime.
  • quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
  • rescue mission — mission (def 16).
  • retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
  • rosicrucianism — the practices or principles of Rosicrucians.
  • school uniform — standard outfit worn by pupils
  • seaman recruit — a noncommissioned enlisted person of the lowest rank. Abbreviation: SR.
  • semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
  • serum sickness — a generalized allergic reaction to a foreign serum or drug, characterized by fever, skin rash, enlarged lymph nodes, and painful joints.
  • somali current — a current of the Indian Ocean, flowing northward along the coast of Somalia in summer and southwestward the rest of the year.
  • south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • submetacentric — referring to chromosomes which have one long arm and one short arm
  • summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
  • superincumbent — lying or resting on something else.
  • supermasculine — highly masculine
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