14-letter words containing a, h, e, m
- jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
- kamehameha day — June 11, observed in Hawaii as a holiday in celebration of the birth of Kamehameha I.
- khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
- kidney machine — artificial kidney.
- knight templar — Templar.
- lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
- lake champlain — a lake in the northeastern US, between the Green Mountains and the Adirondack Mountains: linked by the Champlain Canal to the Hudson River and by the Richelieu River to the St Lawrence; a major communications route in colonial times
- lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
- lambeth palace — the official residence of the archbishop of Canterbury, in Lambeth.
- lap microphone — a small microphone that may be clipped to the speaker's lapel, pocket, or the like.
- larmor theorem — the theorem that an electron subjected only to the force exerted by the nucleus about which it is moving will undergo Larmor precession but no other change in motion when placed in a magnetic field.
- lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- lethal chamber — a room or enclosure where animals may be killed by exposure to a poison gas.
- leucocythaemia — leukaemia
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- loophole frame — a frame in the opening of a wall enclosing a window and some other opening.
- lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
- lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
- m'naghten test — a rule that defines a person as legally insane when that person cannot distinguish right from wrong.
- macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
- machine finish — a very smooth paper surface, created by a machine.
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- machine stitch — a stitch created by a sewing machine
- machine-stitch — to sew on a sewing machine.
- mackerel shark — any of several fierce sharks of the family Lamidae, including the great white shark and the mako.
- macrocephalous — Having a large head.
- madhya pradesh — a state in central India. 119,016 sq. mi. (308,252 sq. km). Capital: Bhopal.
- 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.
- maitre d'hotel — a headwaiter.
- major mitchell — an Australian cockatoo, Kakatoe leadbeateri, with a white-and-pink plumage
- major prophets — theology
- make a hash of — a dish of diced or chopped meat and often vegetables, as of leftover corned beef or veal and potatoes, sautéed in a frying pan or of meat, potatoes, and carrots cooked together in gravy.
- make a hole in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- make away with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make free with — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- make the grade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- make the scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
- make time with — to succeed in attracting or having an affair with (a person)
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- 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.
- marasca cherry — the red acid-tasting fruit of the marasca tree, from which maraschino is made
- marble orchard — cemetery.