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14-letter words containing a, l, t, m

  • beclomethasone — a potent synthetic corticosteroid, C 28 H 37 ClO 7 , prepared as an inhalant in the treatment of bronchial asthma.
  • bethlehem sage — a plant, Pulmonaria saccharata, of the borage family, native to Europe, having mottled, white leaves and white or reddish-purple flowers in clusters.
  • bidialectalism — the state of being bidialectal
  • billy no-mates — a person with no friends
  • bioclimatology — the study of the effects of climatic conditions on living organisms
  • bitmap display — (hardware)   A computer output device where each pixel displayed on the monitor screen corresponds directly to one or more bits in the computer's video memory. Such a display can be updated extremely rapidly since changing a pixel involves only a single processor write to memory compared with a terminal or VDU connected via a serial line where the speed of the serial line limits the speed at which the display can be changed. Most modern personal computers and workstations have bitmap displays, allowing the efficient use of graphical user interfaces, interactive graphics and a choice of on-screen fonts. Some more expensive systems still delegate graphics operations to dedicated hardware such as graphics accelerators. The bitmap display might be traced back to the earliest days of computing when the Manchester University Mark I(?) computer, developed by F.C. Williams and T. Kilburn shortly after the Second World War. This used a storage tube as its working memory. Phosphor dots were used to store single bits of data which could be read by the user and interpreted as binary numbers.
  • bladder ketmia — plant with pale yellow flowers
  • bladder ketmie — flower-of-an-hour
  • blantyre-limbe — a city in S Malawi: largest city in the country; formed in 1956 from the adjoining towns of Blantyre and Limbe. Pop: 647 000 (2005 est)
  • blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
  • block mountain — a mountain produced by faulting and the uplifting of large blocks of rock
  • blow off steam — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
  • blue mountains — a mountain range in the US, in NE Oregon and SE Washington. Highest peak: Rock Creek Butte, 2773 m (9097 ft)
  • bornyl formate — a liquid, C 11 H 18 O 2 , having a piny odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of soaps and disinfectants.
  • break the mold — If you say that someone breaks the mold, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
  • breast implant — an object such as a sachet filled with gel introduced surgically into a woman's breast to enlarge it
  • bremsstrahlung — the radiation produced when an electrically charged particle, esp an electron, is slowed down by the electric field of an atomic nucleus or an atomic ion
  • british malaya — a comprehensive term for the former British possessions on the Malay Peninsula and the Malay Archipelago: now part of Malaysia.
  • browntail moth — kind of moth
  • bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
  • by acclamation — by an overwhelming majority without a ballot
  • by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
  • calamata olive — a purplish-black, almond-shaped olive with a fruity flavor and meaty texture, often split and cured in brine and packed in vinegar.
  • calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
  • caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
  • camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
  • campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
  • campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
  • campylotropous — (of an ovule) curved so that the micropyle and funiculus almost touch
  • cap the climax — to be or do more than could be expected or believed
  • capital market — the financial institutions collectively that deal with medium-term and long-term capital and loans
  • caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
  • caramelization — the conversion of sugar into caramel, caused by heating
  • casement cloth — a sheer fabric made of a variety of fibers, used for window curtains and as backing for heavy drapery or decorative fabrics.
  • celto-germanic — having the characteristics of both the Celtic and Germanic peoples.
  • central moment — a moment about the center of a distribution, usually the mean.
  • centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
  • cephalhematoma — Alt form cephalohematoma.
  • cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
  • ceremonial tea — a Japanese green tea made from choice shade-grown leaves that are cured by a steaming, drying, and powdering process: used in chanoyu.
  • certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
  • charles martel — grandfather of Charlemagne. ?688–741 ad, Frankish ruler of Austrasia (715–41), who checked the Muslim invasion of Europe by defeating the Moors at Poitiers (732)
  • charm bracelet — a bracelet that has small ornaments fixed to it
  • chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
  • chemical plant — a factory that produces or processes chemicals
  • chemical toner — toner (def 4).
  • chemical-toner — a person or thing that tones.
  • chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
  • chisholm trail — cattle trail from San Antonio, Tex., to Abilene, Kans.: important from 1865 until the 1880s
  • chlorochromate — (inorganic chemistry) The univalent anion CrClO3-, or any salt containing this anion.
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