14-letter words containing a, r, m, i
- pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
- pyramid letter — chain letter.
- pyramid scheme — pyramid (def 8).
- pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
- pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- quadratic form — a polynomial all of whose terms are of degree 2 in two or more variables, as 5 x 2 − 2 xy + 3 y 2 .
- quadrigeminate — made up of four parts
- quadrumvirates — Plural form of quadrumvirate.
- quadrupedalism — The condition of being a quadruped.
- quadruple time — a measure consisting of four beats or pulses with accent on the first and third.
- quaker meeting — a meeting of Quakers, at which all members, except those moved to speak, remain silent.
- quantum meruit — as much as he has earned: denoting a payment for goods or services in partial fulfilment of a contract or for those supplied when no price has been agreed
- quasi-criminal — of the nature of or involving crime.
- quasi-immortal — not mortal; not liable or subject to death; undying: our immortal souls.
- quasi-informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- quasi-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
- questionmaster — quizmaster.
- quiz programme — a radio or television programme in which the general or specific knowledge of the players is tested by a series of questions
- quotation mark — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
- radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
- radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
- radiostrontium — strontium 90.
- radiotelemeter — the equipment used for radiotelemetry
- radiotelemetry — the use of radio waves for transmitting information from a distant instrument to a device that indicates or records the measurements
- radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- radium therapy — treatment of disease by means of radium.
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rammelsbergite — a mineral, essentially nickel diarsenide, NiAs 2 .
- ramos gin fizz — a cocktail of gin, egg white, lime and lemon juice, sugar, and cream, shaken with ice and often topped with soda or seltzer.
- ramshorn snail — any of various freshwater snails
- random testing — (programming, testing) A black-box testing approach in which software is tested by choosing an arbitrary subset of all possible input values. Random testing helps to avoid the problem of only testing what you know will work.
- rastafarianism — a religious cult, originally of Jamaica, that regards Africa as the Promised Land, to which all true believers will someday return, and the late Haile Selassie I, former emperor of Ethiopia, as the messiah.
- rawhide hammer — a hammer, used to avoid damaging a surface, having a head consisting of a metal tube from each end of which a tight roll of hide protrudes
- re-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
- re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again
- re-enumeration — an act of enumerating.
- re-familiarize — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
- reamalgamation — the act or process of amalgamating.
- reappraisement — an act or the process of appraising someone or something again
- reassimilating — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- recommendation — an act of recommending.
- reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
- recrementitial — of, relating to, or consisting of recrement or waste matter
- reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
- reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
- reimplantation — the surgical restoration of a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure to its original site.
- relative major — the major key whose tonic is the third degree of a given minor key.