15-letter words containing u, n, e, l
- medical student — trainee doctor
- medicine bundle — a wrapped package of items used by some North American Indians for religious or ceremonial purposes.
- medullary canal — the central area of a bone, containing marrow
- mellifluousness — sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
- menstrual cycle — (in women of reproductive age) the cycle of physiological changes affecting the reproductive organs that takes place typically over a month and includes ovulation, thickening of the lining of the womb and menstruation if fertilization of the egg has not occurred
- metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
- methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
- microtunnelling — a technique used to excavate tunnels mechanically for the laying of pipes
- mid-lent sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- milliequivalent — a unit of measure, applied to electrolytes, that expresses the combining power of a substance. Abbreviation: mEq.
- miner's lettuce — winter purslane.
- minimum tillage — no-tillage.
- miscellaneously — In a miscellaneous manner.
- miscue analysis — analysis of the errors a pupil makes while reading
- mistrustfulness — Quality of being mistrustful.
- modern language — one of the literary languages currently in use in Europe, as French, Spanish, or German, treated as a departmental course of study in a school, college, or university.
- molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
- monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
- monomolecularly — In monomolecular terms.
- mononucleotides — Plural form of mononucleotide.
- monumentalizing — Present participle of monumentalize.
- most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
- mother language — a language from which another language is descended; parent language.
- mount of olives — a hill to the east of Jerusalem: in New Testament times the village Bethany (Mark 11:11) was on its eastern slope and Gethsemane on its western one
- mountain laurel — any of various ericaceous shrubs or trees of the genus Kalmia, esp K. latifolia of E North America, which has leathery poisonous leaves and clusters of pink or white flowers
- mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
- mules operation — the surgical removal of folds of skin in the breech of a sheep to reduce blowfly strike
- multi-channeled — the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway.
- multidiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- multimillennial — relating to or encompassing several millennia
- multinucleolate — having two or more nucleoli
- multiple voting — the casting of ballots in more than one constituency in one election, as in England before the election reform of 1918.
- multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
- multiwavelength — Involving, or composed of, multiple wavelengths.
- muscle relaxant — A muscle relaxant is any drug which relaxes muscles and may be used to treat muscle spasms and muscle pain.
- musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
- muslim calendar — the lunar calendar used by Muslims and reckoned from a.d. 622: the calendar year consists of 354 days and contains 12 months: Moharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Shaban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu ʾl-Qaʿda, and Dhu ʾl-hijjah. In leap years the month Dhu ʾl-hijjah contains one extra day.
- naismith's rule — a rule of thumb for calculating the time needed for a climbing expedition, allowing 1 hour for every 3 miles of distance plus 1 hour for every 2000 feet of height
- name resolution — (networking) The process of mapping a name into its corresponding address. The Domain Name System is the system which does name resolution on the Internet.
- national league — the older of the two major professional U.S. baseball leagues, established in 1876. Abbreviation: N.L.
- native language — first language, mother tongue
- natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
- natural justice — accepted moral principles
- natural realism — naive realism.
- natural science — a science or knowledge of objects or processes observable in nature, as biology or physics, as distinguished from the abstract or theoretical sciences, as mathematics or philosophy.
- natural virtues — (especially among the scholastics) any moral virtue of which humankind is capable, especially the cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude.
- natural wastage — Natural wastage is the process of employees leaving their jobs because they want to retire or move to other jobs, rather than because their employer makes them leave.
- negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
- neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
- neo-lutheranism — a movement begun in the 19th century in Germany and Scandinavia to revive the orthodox principles, beliefs, and practices of the Lutheran Church.