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16-letter words containing a, l, t, m, i

  • transmissibility — capable of being transmitted.
  • transnationalism — going beyond national boundaries or interests: a transnational economy.
  • trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
  • trichotillomania — a compulsion to pull out one's hair.
  • trigeminal nerve — of or relating to the trigeminal nerve.
  • trim one's sails — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
  • triphenylmethane — a colorless, crystalline, solid compound containing three benzene rings, C 19 H 16 , from which many dyes are derived.
  • twin-lens camera — a camera having two separately mounted lenses coordinated to eliminate parallax errors or for making stereoscopic photographs.
  • two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
  • ultra-liberalism — extremely liberal, especially in politics.
  • ultramicroscopic — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
  • ultraminiaturize — to reduce to an ultraminiature size or scale.
  • ultranationalism — extreme devotion to or advocacy of the interests of a nation, especially regardless of the effect on any other nations.
  • uncircumstantial — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
  • unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
  • undenominational — free from religious sects or denominationalism; not limited or belonging to any particular religious group or groups.
  • under-modulation — to reproduce (a sound or signal) at below the optimal output level in a recording or broadcasting system, causing it to be distorted.
  • unsystematically — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
  • vertical farming — a proposed system of growing crops in urban areas using specially designed skyscrapers
  • visual magnitude — Astronomy. magnitude (def 5a).
  • visual-magnitude — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
  • waterleaf family — the plant family Hydrophyllaceae, characterized by usually hairy herbaceous plants having lobed, divided, or compound leaves, five-parted blue or white flowers, and capsular fruit, and including baby-blue-eyes, phacelia, and waterleaf.
  • whatchamacallits — Plural form of whatchamacallit.
  • william hamilton — (person)   A mathematician who posed Hamilton's problem.
  • willow ptarmigan — a ptarmigan, Lagopus lagopus, of arctic and subarctic regions of the New and Old Worlds, having brown, mottled plumage in summer and white plumage in winter.
  • woolly manzanita — a tree or shrub, Arctostaphylos tomentosa, of the heath family, common from British Columbia to California, having broad leaves, with the underside covered with white hairs, and white flowers.
  • yield management — the process of frequently adjusting the price of a product in response to various market factors, as demand or competition.
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