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14-letter words containing a, n, i, s, d, e

  • inland passage — Inside Passage
  • innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
  • inordinateness — The quality of being inordinate; unreasonable excess.
  • insecticidally — in an insecticidal manner
  • inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
  • inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
  • inside passage — protected sea route along the W coast of North America, from Seattle, Wash., to the N part of the Alas. panhandle: the route uses channels and straits between islands and the mainland: c. 950 mi (1,529 km) long
  • instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
  • insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • intermediaries — Plural form of intermediary.
  • invisible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
  • irrationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of irrationalise.
  • isabela island — an island in the Pacific Ocean, off the W coast of South America: the largest of the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. 2250 sq. mi. (5827 sq. km).
  • isolated point — Mathematics. a point in a set such that the neighborhood of the point is devoid of any other points belonging to the set.
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
  • kidney disease — medical condition affecting the kidneys
  • kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • lead poisoning — Pathology. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
  • liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
  • lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
  • madison avenue — a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.
  • maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
  • man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
  • manic disorder — a type of affective disorder characterized by euphoric mood, excessive activity and talkativeness, impaired judgment, and sometimes psychotic symptoms, as grandiose delusions.
  • marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
  • meadow parsnip — any North American plant belonging to the genus Thaspium, of the parsley family, having yellow or purple flowers.
  • mediastinotomy — (surgery) incision of the mediastinum.
  • medicalisation — Alternative spelling of medicalization.
  • meditativeness — The quality of being meditative.
  • mendaciousness — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
  • mental disease — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
  • merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
  • merritt island — a town in E Florida.
  • methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
  • metric madness — excessive devotion to metrication
  • middle eastern — Also called Mideast. (loosely) the area from Libya E to Afghanistan, usually including Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the other countries of the Arabian peninsula.
  • middle persian — the Persian language at a stage that begins c300 b.c. and includes Pahlavi (attested from the 3rd to the 7th centuries a.d.) as well as the West Iranian literatures (3rd–10th centuries a.d.) of religions carried outside Persia. Abbreviation: MPers.
  • midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
  • mis-coordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • misadvisedness — the state of being ill-advised or misguided
  • misapprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of misapprehend.
  • misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
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