14-letter words containing a, n, c, t
- levant morocco — a fine morocco leather with a large, irregular grain, used esp. in bookbinding
- lexicalisation — Alternative spelling of lexicalization.
- lexicalization — The act or process of lexicalizing.
- licentiateship — a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.
- light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
- line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
- linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
- lipstick plant — any of several trailing, epiphytic vines of the genus Aeschynanthus, of the gesneria family, especially A. pulcher or A. radicans, native to southeast Asia, having tubular red or orange flowers.
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- llano estacado — a large plateau in the SW United States, in W Texas and SE New Mexico: cattle-grazing region. About 1000–5000 feet (300–1500 meters) above sea level.
- local election — an election to select members for a local council
- logical syntax — syntactics.
- long-term care — continuing help and attention
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- lunatic asylum — psychiatric hospital
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- macadamization — to pave by laying and compacting successive layers of broken stone, often with asphalt or hot tar.
- macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
- macartney rose — a trailing or climbing evergreen rose, Rosa bracteata, of China, having shiny leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
- machicolations — Plural form of machicolation.
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- machine stitch — a stitch created by a sewing machine
- machine-stitch — to sew on a sewing machine.
- macintosh iicx — (computer) (Mac IIcx) A version of Apple's Macintosh II personal computer, introduced in 1989, with a Motorola 68030 processor running at 16 MHz and up to 128 MB of RAM (120 ns, 30-pin DRAM chips). The IIcx requires System 6.0.3 or later and requires "Mode 32" or "32-bit Enabler" to use more than 8MB of RAM. It was discontinued 1991, and in 1996 is still considered one of the best-designed Macs ever.
- mackinaw trout — lake trout.
- macro-mutation — a mutation that has a profound effect on the resulting organism, as a change in a regulatory gene that controls the expression of many structural genes.
- macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
- macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
- macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
- magic mountain — a novel (1924) by Thomas Mann.
- magnetic chart — a chart showing the magnetic properties of a portion of the earth's surface, as dip, variation, and intensity.
- magnetic epoch — a geologically long period of time during which the magnetic field of the earth retains the same polarity. The magnetic field may reverse during such a period for a geologically short period of time (a magnetic event)
- magnetic field — a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
- magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
- magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.
- magnetic storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
- magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
- magnetooptical — Having both magnetic and optical elements.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- magnetostatics — the branch of magnetics that deals with magnetic fields that do not vary with time (magnetostatic fields)
- magnifications — Plural form of magnification.
- magnox reactor — a nuclear reactor using carbon dioxide as the coolant, graphite as the moderator, and uranium cased in magnox as the fuel
- maine coon cat — one of an American breed of large semi-longhaired domestic cats with a shaggy ruff and a long, bushy tail.
- majesticalness — the glory or majesty of someone or something
- make no secret — If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
- make the scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
- malacostracans — Plural form of malacostracan.
- malcontentedly — in a discontented manner
- malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.