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14-letter words containing a, m, d, n

  • precision-made — made to precise specifications
  • predeterminate — determined beforehand; predetermined.
  • prime meridian — the meridian running through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is reckoned.
  • printed matter — any of various kinds of printed material that qualifies for a special postal rate.
  • procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
  • promenade deck — an upper deck or part of a deck on a passenger ship where passengers can stroll, often covered with a light shade deck.
  • promenade tile — a machine-made, unglazed, ceramic floor tile.
  • pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
  • psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
  • pump attendant — a person who works in a garage or petrol station and who fills customers' cars with petrol
  • quadrigeminate — made up of four parts
  • quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
  • radiostrontium — strontium 90.
  • random numbers — a number chosen by a random sampling, as from a table (random number table) or generated by a computer.
  • random testing — (programming, testing)   A black-box testing approach in which software is tested by choosing an arbitrary subset of all possible input values. Random testing helps to avoid the problem of only testing what you know will work.
  • reach-me-downs — trousers
  • recommendation — an act of recommending.
  • recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
  • record company — business: sells recorded music
  • right-hand man — an indispensable or invaluable assistant; right hand.
  • roman calendar — the calendar in use in ancient Rome until 46 b.c., when it was replaced with the Julian calendar.
  • room and board — lodging and meals.
  • sacred monster — a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.
  • saddam hussein — Also, Hosein, Husain. (al-Husayn) a.d. 629?–680, Arabian caliph, the son of Ali and Fatima and the brother of Hasan.
  • scandium oxide — a white infusible powder, Sc 2 O 3 , soluble in acids.
  • scream and die — Synonym cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.
  • second baseman — the player whose position is second base.
  • second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • 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.
  • self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • 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-dominance — incomplete dominance.
  • semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • send a message — to convey or communicate one's feelings, desires, etc. in a subtle or indirect manner
  • send a message — to convey or communicate one's feelings, desires, etc. in a subtle or indirect manner
  • shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
  • shamefacedness — modest or bashful.
  • sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • slalom descent — a winding descent
  • slide magazine — a piece of equipment that holds slides and pushes them into a projector
  • slide mountain — a mountain in SE New York: highest peak of the Catskill Mountains. 4204 feet (1280 meters).
  • smash-and-grab — A smash-and-grab is a robbery in which a person breaks a shop window, takes the things that are on display there, and runs away with them.
  • social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
  • sodium cyanide — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating.
  • sodium nitrate — a crystalline, water-soluble compound, NaNO 3 , that occurs naturally as soda niter: used in fertilizers, explosives, and glass, and as a color fixative in processed meats.
  • sonderkommando — a group of prisoners assigned to collect belongings and dispose of the bodies of other prisoners who had died or been killed.
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