14-letter words containing e
- mixed feelings — conflicted emotions
- mixed foursome — a foursome of two teams, each comprised of a man and a woman.
- mixed language — any language containing items of vocabulary or other linguistic characteristics borrowed from two or more existing languages
- mixed marriage — a marriage between persons of different racial, ethnic, or religious groups, as between a black person and a white person or between a Christian and a Jew.
- mixed metaphor — the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined, as in “The president will put the ship of state on its feet.”.
- mmx technology — Matrix Math eXtensions
- mnemotechnical — Of or pertaining to mnemotechny.
- mobile canteen — a truck or lorry with kitchen facilities that can be used on site, such as on a film set, construction site, as a soup kitchen, etc
- mobile command — the Canadian army and other land forces
- mobile library — travelling book-lending facility
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- model checking — (theory, algorithm, testing) To algorithmically check whether a program (the model) satisfies a specification. The model is usually expressed as a directed graph consisting of nodes (or vertices) and edges. A set of atomic propositions is associated with each node. The nodes represents states of a program, the edges represent possible executions which alters the state, while the atomic propositions represent the basic properties that hold at a point of execution. A specification language, usually some kind of temporal logic, is used to express properties. The problem can be expressed mathematically as: given a temporal logic formula p and a model M with initial state s, decide if M,s \models p.
- modelling clay — mouldable substance fixed in a kiln
- moderate-sized — not large or small
- modern english — the English language since c1475.
- modern persian — the Persian language since the Middle Persian stage.
- modestly sized — moderately sized; not very large, but not small
- modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
- molded breadth — the extreme breadth of the framing of a vessel, excluding the thickness of the plating or planking.
- 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
- moment of sail — the product of a given area of sail, taken as the maximum safe area, and the vertical distance from the center of effort and the center of lateral resistance.
- mommy makeover — a cosmetic surgical procedure designed to reverse physical changes in a woman after childbirth
- money changing — the business of exchanging one currency for another, with the deduction of a commission for the service.
- money-changing — the business or act of exchanging currency, usually of different countries, esp. at a set rate
- money-grubbing — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- mongrelization — to subject (a breed, group, etc.) to crossbreeding, especially with one considered inferior.
- monocarpellary — consisting of a single carpel.
- monocotyledons — Plural form of monocotyledon.
- monodispersive — Monodisperse.
- monoglycerides — Plural form of monoglyceride.
- mononeuropathy — A neuropathy that affects only a single nerve (as distinguished from polyneuropathy).
- mononucleotide — (genetics) A single nucleotide.
- monophthongise — Alternative spelling of monophthongize.
- monophthongize — to change into or pronounce as a monophthong.
- monopoly money — fake money used to play Monopoly
- monopropellant — a substance for propelling rockets that is a mixture of fuel and oxidizer.
- monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
- monotheletical — like a monothelete
- monotonousness — The property of being monotonous.
- monotransitive — In grammar, pertaining to a transitive verb that takes a single mandatory object, either a direct object or a primary object depending on the language.
- monounsaturate — a monounsaturated fat or fatty acid, as olive oil.
- mont-de-marsan — a department in SW France. 3615 sq. mi. (9365 sq. km). Capital: Mont-de-Marsan.
- mont-st-michel — islet just off the NW coast of France, noted for its fortified abbey
- montes veneris — mons veneris
- montreal canoe — a large freight canoe having a raised gunwale at the bow and stern.
- montreal north — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, N of Montreal.
- monumentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of monumentalize.