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14-letter words containing d, e, t, r, s

  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
  • lepidopterists — Plural form of lepidopterist.
  • leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
  • liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
  • life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
  • lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
  • lords temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
  • lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
  • maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • mature student — sb enrolled in study after usual age
  • merritt island — a town in E Florida.
  • method actress — an actress who bases her role on the inner motivation of the character she plays, following the theories of Stanislavsky
  • 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 western — of or relating to the Middle West.
  • mind the store — to tend to business
  • mis-coordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • misconstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstruct.
  • misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
  • misdescription — an incorrect or misleading description
  • misinterpreted — Simple past tense and past participle of misinterpret.
  • misrepresented — Simple past tense and past participle of misrepresent.
  • mistletoe bird — a small Australian flower-pecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that feeds on mistletoe berries
  • 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.
  • moderate-sized — not large or small
  • mont-de-marsan — a department in SW France. 3615 sq. mi. (9365 sq. km). Capital: Mont-de-Marsan.
  • morbid obesity — a state of obesity in which the body mass index is between 40 and 49.9 kg/m2
  • mother goddess — Kālī.
  • motor-assisted — mechanically assisted by a motor
  • mum's the word — silent; not saying a word: to keep mum.
  • murder mystery — detective story, thriller
  • music director — The music director of an orchestra or other group of musicians is the person who decides what they will play and where, and usually conducts them as well.
  • mustard powder — Mustard powder is a yellow powder. You add hot water to it in order to make mustard.
  • nanostructured — Having a nanostructure; a structure designed on the nano scale.
  • national dress — the traditional clothing of a country
  • nematodiriasis — the condition, esp in sheep, of having parasitic nematode worms of the genus Nematodirus in the small intestine
  • neurodiversity — the variation and differences in neurological structure and function that exist among human beings, especially when viewed as being normal and natural rather than pathological: recognizing autism as an example of neurodiversity.
  • never mind sth — You use never mind after a statement, often a negative one, to indicate that the statement is even more true of the person, thing, or situation that you are going to mention next.
  • news broadcast — TV, radio: current affairs item
  • non-depository — a place where something is deposited or stored, as for safekeeping: the night depository of a bank.
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