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14-letter words containing ni

  • manipulatively — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
  • manitoba maple — a Canadian fast-growing variety of maple
  • mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
  • masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • maternity home — a house in which a pregnant woman can live until her baby is born, esp one for women who became pregnant out of wedlock and whose baby is going to be put up for adoption
  • maternity ward — hospital room for new mothers
  • meadow parsnip — any North American plant belonging to the genus Thaspium, of the parsley family, having yellow or purple flowers.
  • meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • mechanicalness — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being mechanical.
  • mechanicsville — a village in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle 1862.
  • megalomaniacal — a person afflicted with megalomania.
  • meniscocytosis — sickle cell anemia.
  • meta-cognitive — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
  • metafictionist — A writer of metafiction.
  • methylthionine — as in methylthionine chloride, a dark green dye used as a stain, antiseptic etc
  • micro-organism — any organism too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, as bacteria, protozoa, and some fungi and algae.
  • microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
  • microminiature — built on an extremely small scale, smaller than subminiature, especially of electronic equipment with small solid-state components in the place of vacuum tubes.
  • microorganisms — any organism too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, as bacteria, protozoa, and some fungi and algae.
  • microtechnique — the art of preparing something so that it can properly be examined using a microscope
  • middle iranian — any of the Iranian languages spoken from about the first to the tenth centuries a.d., as Middle Persian.
  • midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
  • millenarianism — a belief in the millennium.
  • millennialists — Plural form of millennialist.
  • millennium bug — Year 2000
  • 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.
  • minicalculator — a very small handheld calculator
  • miniconvention — a small-scale or preliminary convention, especially a political convention prior to a larger or national convention.
  • minicoy island — a small island in the S Laccadive Islands, off the SW coast of India. 1.25 sq. mi. (3.24 sq. km).
  • minilaparotomy — Surgery. laparotomy with a small incision into the abdomen, often no more than 1 inch (2.5 cm), used especially for tubal ligation.
  • minimalization — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
  • mining geology — geology applied to the exploitation of mineral deposits.
  • ministerialist — A supporter of the ministers, or the party in power.
  • minus infinity — The most negative value, not necessarily or even usually the simple negation of plus infinity. In N bit twos-complement arithmetic, infinity is 2^(N-1) - 1 but minus infinity is -(2^(N-1)), not -(2^(N-1) - 1).
  • mischief night — Halloween or, in some areas, the night before Halloween, as an occasion for pranks and minor vandalism by young people.
  • miscommunicate — (ambitransitive) To communicate incorrectly.
  • misrecognition — Incorrect recognition.
  • misrecognizing — Present participle of misrecognize.
  • missionization — the work and practice of missionaries
  • mnemotechnical — Of or pertaining to mnemotechny.
  • monomaniacally — In a monomaniacal manner.
  • monophonically — In a monophonic manner.
  • monoprionidian — having cells or sacs only on one half of the axis
  • morning coffee — a mid-morning snack with a cup of coffee drunk during a short break at work, or in your house, when you might invite someone in
  • morning prayer — matin (def 1c).
  • morphinomaniac — a person with an uncontrollable addiction to morphine
  • motor mechanic — a mechanic who maintains and repairs cars and other road vehicles
  • mourning bride — a plant, Scabiosa atropurpurea, native to Europe, cultivated for its purple, reddish, or white flowers.
  • mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
  • multiethnicity — The state of being multiethnic.
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