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14-letter words containing c, h, r, o

  • lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
  • lap microphone — a small microphone that may be clipped to the speaker's lapel, pocket, or the like.
  • lauryl alcohol — a compound that, depending upon purity, is either a crystalline solid or colorless liquid, C 12 H 26 O, obtained by the reduction of fatty acids of coconut oil: used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic detergents.
  • lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
  • light-coloured — having a light colour
  • lip microphone — a microphone designed and shaped to be held close to the mouth, for use in noisy environments
  • lithochromatic — relating to or produced by painting on stone
  • lithographical — Of or pertaining to lithography.
  • local preacher — (in early Methodism) a layperson appointed to supervise the congregation and conduct services between visits of a circuit rider.
  • lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
  • macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
  • machado y ruiz — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1875–1939, Spanish writer.
  • macrocephalous — Having a large head.
  • magic mushroom — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
  • magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • major mitchell — an Australian cockatoo, Kakatoe leadbeateri, with a white-and-pink plumage
  • marble orchard — cemetery.
  • mechanotherapy — curative treatment by mechanical means.
  • metachromatism — change of color, especially that due to variation in the temperature of a body.
  • metaphorically — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
  • metaphosphoric — applied to an acid (HPO3) containing a molecule less of water than orthophosphoric acid
  • method actress — an actress who bases her role on the inner motivation of the character she plays, following the theories of Stanislavsky
  • michael jordan — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
  • microaerophile — An organism, especially an aerobic bacterium, that lives and thrives in environments low in oxygen.
  • microbarograph — a barograph for recording minute fluctuations of atmospheric pressure.
  • microcephalous — Microcephalic.
  • microchemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with minute quantities of substances.
  • microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
  • micropathology — the branch of pathology dealing with the microscopic study of changes that occur in tissues and cells during disease.
  • microphysicist — a physicist who specializes in microphysics
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
  • microspherical — relating to or designating a microsphere
  • microtechnique — the art of preparing something so that it can properly be examined using a microscope
  • misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
  • money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
  • monochromatism — the quality of having one color: the monochromatism of Picasso's Blue Period.
  • monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
  • morphinomaniac — a person with an uncontrollable addiction to morphine
  • morphophonemic — noting or pertaining to morphophonemics or morphophonemes.
  • morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
  • mortise chisel — framing chisel.
  • mother country — the country of one's birth or ancestry.
  • mother of coal — mineral charcoal.
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • motor mechanic — a mechanic who maintains and repairs cars and other road vehicles
  • mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
  • multichromatic — Involving more than one colour.
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