14-letter words containing u, n, r, e, l, i
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- manuel noriega — Manuel Antonio, born 1934, military leader of Panama 1983–89: captured by U.S. forces and sentenced to prison for drug trafficking 1992.
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- mensural music — polyphonic music of the 13th century in which each note has a strictly determined value.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- microevolution — evolutionary change involving the gradual accumulation of mutations leading to new varieties within a species.
- milling cutter — any of various rotating toothed cutters used in a milling machine to cut or shape metal parts
- 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.
- miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- 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
- 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
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- multicollinear — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting multicollinearity.
- multifrequency — Of or pertaining to multiple frequencies.
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- mutual insurer — A mutual insurer is an insurance company which is owned by its members or policyholders rather than by shareholders.
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- natural virtue — (especially among the scholastics) any moral virtue of which humankind is capable, especially the cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude.
- neo-surrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
- nervous nellie — a constantly nervous, worried, or timid person.
- net neutrality — the concept that broadband Internet service providers should provide nondiscriminatory access to Internet content, platforms, etc., and should not manipulate the transfer of data regardless of its source or destination: how net neutrality can preserve freedom of speech.
- neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- neurogenically — by neural activity
- neurologically — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
- neuroradiology — the branch of radiology dealing with the central nervous system
- neutral monism — the theory that mind and matter consist of different relations between entities that are themselves neither mental nor physical.
- neutralisation — The act of neutralising.
- neutralization — the act, process, or an instance of neutralizing.
- new australian — an immigrant to Australia, esp one whose native tongue is not English
- new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
- nitrile rubber — a synthetic rubber obtained by the copolymerization of acrylonitrile and butadiene, noted for its oil resistance.
- nitrocellulose — cellulose nitrate.
- nolle prosequi — an entry made upon the records of a court when the plaintiff or prosecutor will proceed no further in a suit or action. Abbreviation: nol. pros.
- non-articulate — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
- non-disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
- non-neutrality — the state of being neutral.
- non-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- non-resolution — a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
- non-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- nonbehavioural — not related to or concerned with behaviour
- nonequilibrium — The condition of not being in equilibrium.
- nonparticulate — Not particulate.
- nonprejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.