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14-letter words containing a, l, y, m, e, r

  • plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
  • player-manager — In football and some other sports, a player-manager is a person who plays for a team and also manages the team.
  • plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
  • polyacrylamide — a white, solid, water-soluble polymer of acrylamide, used in secondary oil recovery, as a thickening agent, a flocculant, and an absorbent, and to separate macromolecules of different molecular weights.
  • polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
  • poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
  • premeditatedly — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
  • premenstrually — in a premenstrual manner
  • primal therapy — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to relive traumatic events, often screaming or crying, in order to achieve catharsis and a breakdown of psychological defenses.
  • primary letter — a lowercase character having neither a descender nor an ascender, as a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z.
  • primary phloem — phloem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
  • pulmonary tree — the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the lungs, which together resemble an upside-down tree.
  • pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
  • pyramid letter — chain letter.
  • pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
  • pyrometallurgy — the process or technique of refining ores with heat so as to accelerate chemical reactions or to melt the metallic or nonmetallic content.
  • radiotelemetry — the use of radio waves for transmitting information from a distant instrument to a device that indicates or records the measurements
  • rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
  • royal marriage — a meld of the king and queen of trumps, as in pinochle. Compare marriage (def 9).
  • sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • scheme library — (library)   (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
  • semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
  • semi-paralysis — Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
  • semi-paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
  • st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
  • sycamore maple — a maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, of Europe and western Asia, having gray bark and opposite, lobed leaves: grown as a shade tree.
  • symmetry plane — reflection plane.
  • testamentarily — in a testamentary manner
  • the real mccoy — the genuine thing or person as promised, stated, or implied (usually preceded by the or the real): Those other paintings are copies, but this one is the McCoy.
  • the royal mail — the national postal service of the United Kingdom
  • thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
  • thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
  • trimethylamine — a colourless, flammable liquid with a strong, fishy odour
  • triphenylamine — a molecule consisting of a nitrogen atom with three phenyl groups attached to it
  • trumpet player — a person who plays the trumpet
  • tunny emulator — (hardware, cryptography)   A special-purpose computer designed at Bletchley Park (UK) based upon the reverse engineering of the Lorenz Cypher. The Lorenz Cypher was used by the German army to encrypt high command orders for transmission via teleprinter (the Enigma was a field-use cypher). Once the key to a message was discovered (by the computer Colossus) the Tunny machine would be set to decrypt the message. The process took about four days from intercept to printout. The original Tunny machine was built about 1943 and scrapped after the war. In 2011 a working model was re-built at Bletchley Park where it is on display.
  • verbena family — the plant family Verbenaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having opposite or whorled leaves, clusters of irregular, sometimes fragrant flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the beautyberry, lantana, teak, verbena, and vervain.
  • virtual memory — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
  • volumetrically — of or relating to measurement by volume.
  • volunteer army — a military force composed entirely of enlistees.
  • yearly meeting — any of several associations of local Quaker congregations.
  • yttrium metals — a series of closely related metals including yttrium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, and sometimes, terbium, gadolinium, and dysprosium
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