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

  • appendicectomy — surgical removal of any appendage, esp the vermiform appendix
  • apportionments — Plural form of apportionment.
  • approximations — Plural form of approximation.
  • approximeeting — the practice of a group of people making indefinite plans to meet and then altering those plans regularly via mobile phones according to changing circumstances
  • apsidal motion — the rotation of the major axis of an eccentric orbit in the plane of the orbit.
  • arctic monkeys — British rock group (formed 2002): comprising Alex Turner (born 1986; vocals, guitar), Jamie Cook (born 1985, guitar), Matt Helders (born 1986, drums, vocals) and Nick O'Malley (born 1985, bass guitar); their albums include Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006), Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007), and AM (2013)
  • argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
  • armor-piercing — (of bullets, artillery shells, etc.) designed especially for piercing armor.
  • armour-plating — The armour-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering which is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
  • arms inspector — a person who carries out an arms inspection
  • arrondissement — the largest administrative subdivision of a department
  • arthroconidium — A kind of asexual fungal spore, typically produced by segmentation of pre-existing fungal hyphae.
  • assembly point — a designated place where people have been told to wait after evacuating a building in the event of a fire or other emergency
  • assemblyperson — a member of a legislative assembly, especially a member of the lower house of the legislature in certain states of the U.S.
  • associationism — a theory that all mental activity is based on connections between basic mental events, such as sensations and feelings
  • asthenospermia — (medicine) Loss or reduction in the strength or energy of sperm cells, hence infertility. Not always infertile many are subfertile.
  • asthenospermic — (medicine) Characterised by or pertaining to asthenospermia, hence infertile.
  • astronomically — of, relating to, or connected with astronomy.
  • at one's mercy — compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.
  • atomic veteran — a veteran of the armed forces who was exposed to radioactivity during the testing or use of nuclear (atomic) weapons in World War II or subsequent wars.
  • autoenrollment — Automatic enrollment (especially of security certificates in a computer system).
  • automatization — to make automatic.
  • award ceremony — ceremony at which an award is presented
  • axiomatisation — the process of reducing down to a system of basic truths, or axioms
  • axiomatization — the process of reducing down to a system of basic truths, or axioms
  • azidothymidine — an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS
  • back formation — the invention of a new word on the assumption that a familiar word is derived from it. The verbs edit and burgle were so created from editor and burglar
  • back-formation — the analogical creation of one word from another word that appears to be a derived or inflected form of the first by dropping the apparent affix or by modification.
  • ballroom dance — a social dance, popular since the beginning of the 20th century, in conventional rhythms, such as the foxtrot and the quickstep
  • balsaminaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Balsaminaceae, a family of flowering plants, including balsam and touch-me-not, that have irregular flowers and explosive capsules
  • bamboo curtain — (esp in the 1950s and 1960s) the political and military barrier to communications around the People's Republic of China
  • bamboo network — a network of close-knit Chinese entrepreneurs with large corporate empires in southeast Asia
  • bamboo turning — turning of spindles and framing members to simulate the jointing of bamboo.
  • ban-the-bomber — a person who vigorously advocates banning the development or use of nuclear weapons.
  • banana problem — (programming, humour)   From the story of the little girl who said "I know how to spell "banana", but I don't know when to stop". Not knowing where or when to bring a production to a close (compare fencepost error). One may say "there is a banana problem" of an algorithm with poorly defined or incorrect termination conditions, or in discussing the evolution of a design that may be succumbing to featuritis (see also creeping elegance, creeping featuritis).
  • baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
  • base community — (especially in South America) a group of people taking part in religious devotions and Bible study, who seek to apply this in their socioeconomic and political situation.
  • base component — the system of rules in a transformational grammar that specify the deep structure of the language
  • battered woman — See under battered woman syndrome.
  • battered-women — the array of physical and psychological injuries exhibited by women (battered women or battered wives) who have been beaten repeatedly or otherwise abused by their partners or spouses.
  • beclomethasone — a potent synthetic corticosteroid, C 28 H 37 ClO 7 , prepared as an inhalant in the treatment of bronchial asthma.
  • beta geminorum — Pollux
  • beyond compare — If you describe something as beyond compare, you mean that it is extremely good or extremely great.
  • beyond measure — If you say that something has changed or that it has affected you beyond measure, you are emphasizing that it has done this to a great extent.
  • bibliomaniacal — relating to a bibliomaniac
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • billy no-mates — a person with no friends
  • biocontainment — the confinement, as by sealed-off chambers, of materials that are harmful or potentially harmful to life.
  • bioinformatics — the branch of information science concerned with large databases of biochemical or pharmaceutical information
  • bioregionalism — the conviction that environmental and social policies should be determined by the bioregion rather than economics or politics
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