14-letter words containing a, f, l, m
- misclassifying — Present participle of misclassify.
- mittag-leffler — Magnus Gösta [mahng-nuhs yœ-stah] /ˈmɑŋ nʌs ˈyœ stɑ/ (Show IPA), 1846–1927, Swedish mathematician.
- molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
- 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.
- mongolian fold — epicanthus.
- morgain le fay — Morgan le Fay.
- mother of coal — mineral charcoal.
- moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
- multifactorial — having or stemming from a number of different causes or influences: Some medical researchers regard cancer as a multifactorial disease.
- multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
- music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
- mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
- myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
- new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
- nfld & lab — Newfoundland and Labrador
- nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
- noninflammable — Not catching fire easily; not flammable.
- nonmaleficence — A lack or absence of maleficence.
- nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
- one false move — You use one false move to introduce the very bad or serious consequences which will result if someone makes a mistake, even a very small one.
- oral-formulaic — noting or pertaining to poetry of an earlier spoken tradition, as the Iliad, that uses formulas to aid its continued expression.
- overfamiliarly — In an overfamiliar way.
- pacific salmon — any salmon of the genus Oncorhynchus, especially the chinook salmon, O. tshawytscha.
- parsley family — the plant family Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate, usually compound leaves, hollow stems, numerous small flowers borne in umbels, and dry, seedlike, often aromatic fruit, and including anise, caraway, carrot, celery, dill, parsley, parsnip, and Queen Anne's lace, as well as poisonous plants such as cowbane and water hemlock.
- patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
- performability — the quality of being performable
- platform frame — a building frame having studs only one story high, regardless of the number of stories built, each story having a box sill.
- platform party — the group on the platform at a meeting
- platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
- platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
- poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
- preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- quasi-informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- quassia family — the plant family Simaroubaceae, characterized by tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs having pinnately compound leaves, clusters of flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, or fleshy or winged fruit, and a bitter bark used medicinally, and including the ailanthus and quassia.
- radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- re-familiarize — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- salmon fishing — the sport of angling for salmon
- self-abasement — humiliation of oneself, especially as a result of guilt, shame, or the like.
- self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
- self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
- self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
- self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
- self-treatment — an act or manner of treating.
- semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.
- semiofficially — in a semiofficial manner