14-letter words containing a, l, m, n, c, s
- placement test — a test to determine a student's level of ability in one or more subjects in order to place the student with others of the same approximate ability.
- pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
- polemoniaceous — belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants.
- quasi-criminal — of the nature of or involving crime.
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
- rostral column — a memorial column having sculptures representing the rams of ancient ships.
- sacramentalism — a belief in or emphasis on the importance and efficacy of the sacraments for achieving salvation and conferring grace.
- sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sales campaign — product promotion and publicity
- sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
- sanctuary lamp — a lamp, usually red, placed in a prominent position in the sanctuary of a church, that when lit indicates the presence of the Blessed Sacrament
- scrimmage line — line of scrimmage.
- segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
- self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- 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.
- selling climax — a brief, abrupt decline in stock prices that is succeeded by a rally.
- 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.
- semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
- semicentennial — of or relating to a fiftieth anniversary.
- shalach manoth — the practice of giving gifts to one another or to the needy on Purim.
- simple machine — machine (def 3b).
- simplification — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- slalom descent — a winding descent
- slanging match — A slanging match is an angry quarrel in which people insult each other.
- slum clearance — the removal for rehousing, by the state, of those people who previously lived in slum areas, to prepare the area for demolition and rebuilding
- snake mackerel — an elongate, deep-sea fish, Gempylus serpens, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having jutting jaws and strong teeth.
- social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
- sockeye salmon — an important food fish, Oncorhynchus nerka, inhabiting the North Pacific.
- soil mechanics — the branch of civil engineering that deals with the mechanical behavior of soil and similar materials when they are compressed or sheared or when liquids flow through them.
- somali current — a current of the Indian Ocean, flowing northward along the coast of Somalia in summer and southwestward the rest of the year.
- specimen plant — a plant grown by itself for ornamental effect, rather than being massed with others in a bed or border.
- stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
- sun animalcule — a heliozoan.
- supermasculine — highly masculine
- talismanically — in a talismanic manner
- transempirical — beyond the range of experiential knowledge.
- transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
- ultramasculine — extremely masculine
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
- undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
- unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
- unsystematical — unsystematic