14-letter words containing a, l, t, m
- manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
- mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
- marital status — whether or not one is married
- marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
- marmalade tree — sapote (def 1).
- martello tower — a circular, towerlike fort with guns on the top.
- martial artist — a person who practises a martial art
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- matched sample — a sample in which the individuals selected for analysis share all properties except that under investigation
- mater dolorosa — the sorrowful mother.
- material cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- maternal death — the death of a woman while pregnant or shortly after childbirth or an abortion
- mathematically — of, relating to, or of the nature of mathematics: mathematical truth.
- matilija poppy — a tree poppy, Romneya coulteri, of California and Mexico, having thin, paperlike leaves and large, solitary, white flowers.
- matthew walker — a knot formed on the end of a rope by partly unlaying the strands and tying them in a certain way.
- maturity value — The maturity value of a life insurance policy is the amount of money that is paid out when it matures.
- maturity yield — Finance. the rate of return on a bond expressed as a percentage that accounts for the difference between the interest earned based on current market value and that earned if the bond is held to maturity.
- maxwell montes — a compact mountain range on Ishtar Terra, one of the regions of highest elevation on Venus.
- mcclure strait — an arm of the Beaufort Sea between Banks Island in the south and Melville Island and Eglinton Island to the north, in the Northwest Territories, Canada. About 170 miles (270 km) long and 60 miles (90 km) wide.
- medical doctor — a doctor of medicine, as opposed to the holder of a doctorate in any other field
- medical ethics — the code of behaviour considered to be correct for members of the medical profession
- medicalisation — Alternative spelling of medicalization.
- medicalization — The act or process of medicalizing.
- medicamentally — in a manner that relates to medicaments
- medieval latin — the Latin language of the literature of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500, including many Latinized words from other languages. Abbreviation: ML, M.L.
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- megatechnology — high technology that is developing rapidly
- melastomaceous — belonging to the family Melastomataceae (also known as Melastomaceae)
- melodramatized — Simple past tense and past participle of melodramatize.
- melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
- memorabilities — Plural form of memorability.
- mental cruelty — behaviour that causes distress to another person but that does not involve physical assault
- mental disease — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
- mental healing — the healing of a physical ailment or disorder by mental concentration or suggestion.
- mental illness — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
- mental lexicon — the store of words in a person's mind
- mercantilistic — Relating to, or characteristic of mercantilism.
- merchant fleet — the total number of civilian ships of a country carrying either passengers or cargo (goods)
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- merritt island — a town in E Florida.
- mesaticephalic — (anatomy) Having a cranium with a medium ratio of length to breadth.
- met enkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- meta-case tool — A term sometimes used for software packages (like TBK or VSF) which allow users to develop or customise their own CASE tools.
- metabolic heat — animal heat.
- metabolic rate — the rate at which living organisms expend energy or convert energy into food
- metal detector — an electronic device for detecting the presence of metal objects, as one used as a portable sweeping unit or one emplaced in an archway at an airport terminal to detect concealed weapons, explosives, etc.
- metal paste-up — a method for making up a form for printing in which engravings mounted on blocks are positioned on and pasted to a metal base.