14-letter words containing a, m, i, l
- edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
- egalitarianism — belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, social, or economic life.
- electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
- elementariness — The state or condition of being elementary.
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
- emblematically — In an emblematic manner.
- emilia-romagna — a region of N central Italy, on the Adriatic: rises from the plains of the Po valley in the north to the Apennines in the south. Capital: Bologna. Pop: 4 030 220 (2003 est). Area: 22 123 sq km (8628 sq miles)
- empathetically — In an empathetic way.
- emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
- empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- encompassingly — So as to encompass.
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
- epigrammatical — Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram.
- ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
- establishments — Plural form of establishment.
- estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- etymologically — (domain) Based on or belonging to etymology.
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- evangelicalism — (Christianity, historical) Lutheranism.
- exceptionalism — The state of being special, exceptional or unique.
- exempli gratia — for the sake of example
- existentialism — A philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.
- exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
- exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
- experimentally — In the manner of an experiment.
- extrapyramidal — Relating to or denoting nerves concerned with motor activity that descend from the cortex to the spine and are not part of the pyramidal system.
- fall victim to — If you fall victim to something or someone, you suffer as a result of them, or you are killed by them.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- falling market — a stock market in which share prices are falling
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- family compact — any influential clique
- family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
- family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
- ferry terminal — docking area for passenger boats
- figwort family — the plant family Scrophulariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having alternate or opposite leaves, often showy two-lipped or irregular flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the figwort, foxglove, Indian paintbrush, mullein, speedwell, and snapdragon.
- final judgment — judgment (def 8).
- finite decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
- fireman's lift — a method of carrying a person, in which you put one shoulder into the person's midriff, lift them and carry them with their head arms and upper torso hanging down your back while you grip their legs with one hand (leaving your other hand free to hold the ladder as you climb down)
- first classman — a fourth-year student at a U.S. military academy.
- flagellomaniac — a person who is enthusiastic about or derives (sexual) pleasure from whipping or being whipped
- flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
- florists' foam — a rigid, deformable, spongelike plastic used in floral arrangements to secure the stems of flowers.
- fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.