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14-letter words containing d, e, m, a, t, r

  • lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
  • lord baltimore — David, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
  • lords temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
  • maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
  • maitre d'hotel — a headwaiter.
  • make the grade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
  • malapportioned — (of a state or other political unit) poorly apportioned, especially divided, organized, or structured in a manner that prevents large sections of a population from having equitable representation in a legislative body.
  • managed forest — a sustainable forest in which usually at least one tree is planted for every tree felled
  • mandelbrot set — (mathematics, graphics)   (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that | z[N] | < 2 for arbitrarily large values of N, where z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black. The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
  • marmalade tree — sapote (def 1).
  • master bedroom — a principal bedroom in a house or apartment, usually the largest, typically occupied by the person or persons who head the household.
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • mater dolorosa — the sorrowful mother.
  • materia medica — (used with a plural verb) the remedial substances employed in medicine.
  • maternal death — the death of a woman while pregnant or shortly after childbirth or an abortion
  • maternity ward — hospital room for new mothers
  • matteo bojardo — Matteo Maria [mah-tey-oh muh-ree-uh;; Italian maht-te-aw mah-ree-ah] /mɑˈteɪ oʊ məˈri ə;; Italian mɑtˈtɛ ɔ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), Boiardo, Matteo Maria.
  • matter in deed — a fact or statement that can be proved or established by a deed or specialty.
  • mature student — sb enrolled in study after usual age
  • maturity yield — Finance. the rate of return on a bond expressed as a percentage that accounts for the difference between the interest earned based on current market value and that earned if the bond is held to maturity.
  • meat and drink — a source of pleasure
  • medical doctor — a doctor of medicine, as opposed to the holder of a doctorate in any other field
  • meet and greet — (of a celebrity, politician, etc) to have a session of being introduced to and questioned by members of the public or journalists
  • meet-and-greet — a planned social occasion or activity at which a person, usually someone well-known, is formally introduced to attendees to socialize with them or answer their questions.
  • melodramatized — Simple past tense and past participle of melodramatize.
  • merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
  • mermaid tavern — an inn formerly located on Bread Street, Cheapside, in the heart of old London: a meeting place and informal club for Elizabethan playwrights and poets.
  • merritt island — a town in E Florida.
  • metal detector — an electronic device for detecting the presence of metal objects, as one used as a portable sweeping unit or one emplaced in an archway at an airport terminal to detect concealed weapons, explosives, etc.
  • metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
  • method actress — an actress who bases her role on the inner motivation of the character she plays, following the theories of Stanislavsky
  • metoclopramide — a white crystalline substance, C 1 4 H 2 2 ClN 3 O 2 , used primarily in the symptomatic treatment of certain upper gastrointestinal tract problems, and as an antiemetic.
  • 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.
  • milk and water — If you think that someone's suggestions or ideas are weak or sentimental, you can say that they are milk and water.
  • milk-and-water — ineffective; wishy-washy; lacking will or strength.
  • mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
  • mis-coordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
  • mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
  • misunderstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misunderstand.
  • mithridates vi — ("the Great") 132?–63 b.c, king of Pontus 120–63.
  • mixed metaphor — the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined, as in “The president will put the ship of state on its feet.”.
  • moderate-sized — not large or small
  • molded breadth — the extreme breadth of the framing of a vessel, excluding the thickness of the plating or planking.
  • mont-de-marsan — a department in SW France. 3615 sq. mi. (9365 sq. km). Capital: Mont-de-Marsan.
  • morbidity rate — a measure of the relative incidence of a particular disease in a specific locality
  • mother hubbard — a full, loose gown, usually fitted at the shoulders, worn by women.
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