14-letter words containing a, g, e, h
- laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
- leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
- lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- lichenological — relating to lichenology
- life-enhancing — If you describe something as life-enhancing, you mean that it makes you feel happier and more content.
- light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- lightheartedly — In a lighthearted manner, cheerfully, with joy.
- longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
- longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
- lothian region — a former local government region in SE central Scotland, formed in 1975 from East Lothian, most of Midlothian, and West Lothian; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, and Edinburgh
- low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
- lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
- m'naghten test — a rule that defines a person as legally insane when that person cannot distinguish right from wrong.
- magnetic chart — a chart showing the magnetic properties of a portion of the earth's surface, as dip, variation, and intensity.
- magnetic epoch — a geologically long period of time during which the magnetic field of the earth retains the same polarity. The magnetic field may reverse during such a period for a geologically short period of time (a magnetic event)
- magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.
- magnetospheres — Plural form of magnetosphere.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- mail exchanger — (messaging) A server running SMTP Message Transfer Agent software that accepts incoming electronic mail and either delivers it locally or forwards it to another server. The mail exchanger to use for a given domain can be discovered by querying DNS for Mail Exchange Records.
- make the grade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
- marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
- matjes herring — young herring that have not spawned, often prepared with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.
- megalocephalic — Cephalometry, Craniometry. macrocephalic.
- megasporophyll — a sporophyll producing megasporangia only.
- megatechnology — high technology that is developing rapidly
- mental healing — the healing of a physical ailment or disorder by mental concentration or suggestion.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- metamorphizing — Present participle of metamorphize.
- metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metapsychology — speculative thought dealing systematically with concepts extending beyond the limits of psychology as an empirical science.
- methaemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
- methodological — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
- mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
- 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
- moral theology — the branch of theology dealing with principles of moral conduct.
- mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- mowing machine — a machine for mowing or cutting down grass, grain, etc.
- 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.
- myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
- nanotechnology — a technology executed on the scale of less than 100 nanometers, the goal of which is to control individual atoms and molecules, especially to create computer chips and other microscopic devices.