15-letter words containing se
- marek's disease — a contagious cancerous disease of poultry, caused by a herpesvirus and characterized by proliferation of lymphoid cells and paralysis of a limb or the neck.
- market research — investigation into consumers' needs
- market-research — to conduct market research on.
- marsupial mouse — any of various mouse-sized to rat-sized marsupials of the family Dasyuridae, occurring in Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania: some species are rare or endangered.
- massed practice — learning with no intervals or short intervals between successive bouts of learning
- master sergeant — Army, Air Force, Marine Corps. a noncommissioned officer ranking next to the highest noncommissioned officer.
- matrix sentence — Linguistics. a sentence in which another sentence is embedded: In The man who called is waiting, The man is waiting is a matrix sentence.
- merchant seaman — a seaman who works on a merchant vessel.
- mermaid's purse — the horny or leathery egg case of certain cartilaginous fishes, as skates.
- mersenne number — a number of the form, 2 p −1, where p is a prime number.
- metalloprotease — (enzyme) metalloproteinase.
- metamorphosised — Simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise.
- metaphase plate — a plane in the equatorial region of the spindle in dividing cells, along which the chromosomes become arranged during the metaphase.
- methylcellulose — a grayish-white powder prepared from cellulose that swells to a highly viscous colloidal solution in water: used as a food additive and in water paints, leather tanning, and cosmetics.
- microbusinesses — Plural form of microbusiness.
- microdissection — dissection performed under a microscope.
- microenterprise — A business operating on a very small scale, especially one with a sole proprietor and fewer than six employees.
- micrometastases — Plural form of micrometastasis.
- microseismicity — The state of being microseismic.
- midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
- millionairesses — Plural form of millionairess.
- misrepresenting — Present participle of misrepresent.
- morning service — a regular church service in the mornng
- mouse droppings — 1. (graphics, operating system, jargon) Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2. (web, jargon) The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.
- multiflora rose — a climbing or trailing rose, Rosa multiflora, of Japan and Korea, having hooked prickles and fragrant, dense clusters of flowers.
- multiphase flow — Multiphase flow is a type of flow that involves more than one fluid, for example a liquid and a gas, or two liquids that do not mix.
- nansen passport — a passport issued after World War I by the League of Nations to refugees unable to establish citizenship.
- neoconservatism — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
- neoconservative — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
- net asset value — the total value of the assets of an organization less its liabilities and capital charges
- network segment — (networking) A part of an Ethernet or other network, on which all message traffic is common to all nodes, i.e. it is broadcast from one node on the segment and received by all others. This is normally because the segment is a single continuous conductor, though it may include repeaters(?). Since all nodes share the physical medium, collision detection or some other protocol is required to determine whether a message was transmitted without interference from other nodes. The receiving node inspects the destination address of a packet to tell if it was (one of) the intended recipient(s). Communication between nodes on different segments is via one or more routers.
- neurohypophyses — Plural form of neurohypophysis.
- new jersey plan — a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.
- no time to lose — If you say there is no time to lose or no time to be lost, you mean you must hurry as fast as you can to do something.
- noblesse oblige — the moral obligation of those of high birth, powerful social position, etc., to act with honor, kindliness, generosity, etc.
- noise abatement — a set of strategies or techniques to reduce and control annoying or harmful noise in an environment
- noise generator — a device used in synthesizers to produce high-frequency sound effects
- noise pollution — unwanted or harmful noise, as from automobiles, airplanes, or industrial workplaces.
- non prosequitur — a judgment entered against the plaintiff in a suit when the plaintiff does not appear in court to prosecute it.
- non-compromised — unable to function optimally, especially with regard to immune response, owing to underlying disease, harmful environmental exposure, or the side effects of a course of treatment.
- non-consecutive — following one another in uninterrupted succession or order; successive: six consecutive numbers, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
- non-sensitizing — to render sensitive.
- nonconservation — A failure to conserve.
- nonconservative — Not conservative.
- noninsecticidal — absent or free of insecticide
- nonintersecting — Not intersecting.
- nonintersection — Lack of intersection; failure to intersect.
- nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
- nonself-antigen — any of the antigens present in an individual that originate outside the body (contrasted with self-antigen).
- nonsensicalness — Nonsensicality.