14-letter words containing a, l, c, m, n
- decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
- decriminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of decriminalize.
- decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
- disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- discriminately — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
- dismal science — the science of economics
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
- early american — (of furniture, buildings, utensils, etc.) built or made in the U.S. in the colonial period or somewhat later.
- economicalness — The quality of being economical.
- ectocommensals — Plural form of ectocommensal.
- electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
- electromagnets — Plural form of electromagnet.
- electromotance — an electromotive force
- emergency call — a telephone call to the emergency services made during an emergency
- emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- encompassingly — So as to encompass.
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- evangelicalism — (Christianity, historical) Lutheranism.
- exceptionalism — The state of being special, exceptional or unique.
- exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
- family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
- finite decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
- first classman — a fourth-year student at a U.S. military academy.
- flagellomaniac — a person who is enthusiastic about or derives (sexual) pleasure from whipping or being whipped
- fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
- flying machine — a vehicle that sustains itself in and propels itself through the air; an airplane, helicopter, glider, or the like.
- fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
- framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- gaming licence — a licence that allows an establishment, business, club, etc, to offer games that can be played for money
- ganglionectomy — the excision of a ganglion.
- gooseneck lamp — a desk lamp having a flexible shaft or stem.
- heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- humanistically — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- hurricane lamp — a candlestick or oil lantern protected against drafts or winds by a glass chimney.
- hydrodynamical — Hydrodynamic.
- hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- immaculateness — The characteristic of being immaculate; spotlessness.
- immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.