14-letter words containing a, n, i, m, t, s
- insertion mark — a symbol used to show that a missing letter or symbol should be inserted
- inspirationism — a belief in some form of divine inspiration, esp the belief that Christian Scripture was divinely inspired
- instant camera — a usually portable camera that produces a finished picture shortly after each exposure. Compare Polaroid (def 2).
- instrumentally — By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- interactionism — a theory that the mind and the body may each affect the other.
- intermediaries — Plural form of intermediary.
- intermenstrual — Between menstrual periods.
- interracialism — action or policy for establishing equality and cooperation between different racial groups.
- intersegmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
- intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
- intuitionalism — intuitionism.
- isthmian games — one of the great national festivals of ancient Greece, held every two years on the Isthmus of Corinth.
- judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
- karnatak music — the classical music of South India
- kings mountain — a ridge in N South Carolina: American victory over the British 1780.
- lake trasimene — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria: the largest lake in central Italy; scene of Hannibal's victory over the Romans in 217 bc. Area: 128 sq km (49 sq miles)
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- legitimateness — The quality of being legitimate.
- legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
- libertarianism — a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
- luminous paint — paint containing a phosphor that emits visible light when irradiated with ultraviolet light.
- lunatic asylum — psychiatric hospital
- 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.
- macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
- magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
- 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.
- 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.
- magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
- maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
- majesticalness — the glory or majesty of someone or something
- make it snappy — apt to snap or bite; snappish, as a dog.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
- manifestations — An event, action, or object that clearly shows or embodies something, esp. a theory or an abstract idea.
- manual testing — (testing) That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
- maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.