14-letter words containing a, t, i, s, u
- kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
- labor unionist — unionist (def 2).
- lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
- laurent series — a power series in which the negative as well as the positive powers appear.
- lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
- leisure retail — Leisure retail is used to refer to retail outlets that attract shoppers to spend some of their free time browsing and shopping.
- liability suit — a claim for damages based on the plaintiff's claim of the defendant's liability
- lieutenantship — the office of a lieutenant
- lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
- liquid crystal — a liquid having certain crystalline characteristics, especially different optical properties in different directions when exposed to an electric field.
- liquidationist — pertaining to or promoting a theory of economics which holds that governments should not interfere in a recession
- little russian — former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.
- lord spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.
- louis quatorze — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the late 17th century, characterized by increasingly classicizing tendencies, and by an emphasis on dignity rather than comfort.
- lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
- luminous paint — paint containing a phosphor that emits visible light when irradiated with ultraviolet light.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- lunatic asylum — psychiatric hospital
- macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
- make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- manual testing — (testing) That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
- margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
- marital status — whether or not one is married
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- mastigophorous — carrying a cane or whip
- material cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- mauritius hemp — a tropical American plant, Furcraea foetida, having large, fleshy leaves, cultivated as a source of a hemplike fiber.
- mcclure strait — an arm of the Beaufort Sea between Banks Island in the south and Melville Island and Eglinton Island to the north, in the Northwest Territories, Canada. About 170 miles (270 km) long and 60 miles (90 km) wide.
- metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
- metrosexuality — The quality of being metrosexual.
- micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
- microstomatous — having an unusually small mouth
- military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
- minus quantity — a quantity less than zero
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- miscalculating — Present participle of miscalculate.
- miscalculation — An act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgment.
- miscommunicate — (ambitransitive) To communicate incorrectly.
- miscomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- mismeasurement — an inaccurate or incorrect measurement
- mispunctuation — incorrect punctuation
- misunderstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misunderstand.
- misutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.