14-letter words containing e, l, a, m
- massage parlor — a commercial establishment providing massages.
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- matched sample — a sample in which the individuals selected for analysis share all properties except that under investigation
- mater dolorosa — the sorrowful mother.
- 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?
- maternal death — the death of a woman while pregnant or shortly after childbirth or an abortion
- mathematically — of, relating to, or of the nature of mathematics: mathematical truth.
- matthew walker — a knot formed on the end of a rope by partly unlaying the strands and tying them in a certain way.
- maturity value — The maturity value of a life insurance policy is the amount of money that is paid out when it matures.
- 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.
- maxwell montes — a compact mountain range on Ishtar Terra, one of the regions of highest elevation on Venus.
- mayonnaiselike — Resembling mayonnaise.
- 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.
- meadow salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.
- mean sea level — (in the UK) the sea level used by the Ordnance Survey as a datum level, determined at Newlyn in Cornwall
- mean solar day — day (def 3a).
- meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- mechanicalness — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being mechanical.
- mechanicsville — a village in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle 1862.
- medal of honor — The Medal of Honor is a medal that is given to members of the U.S. armed forces who have shown special courage or bravery in battle.
- medial moraine — a ridge of glacial drift formed by the junction of two converging valley glaciers.
- medical doctor — a doctor of medicine, as opposed to the holder of a doctorate in any other field
- medical ethics — the code of behaviour considered to be correct for members of the medical profession
- medical marker — a trait, condition, etc that indicates the presence of, or a probable increased predisposition towards, a medical or psychological disorder
- medical school — university where medical degrees are taught
- medicalisation — Alternative spelling of medicalization.
- medicalization — The act or process of medicalizing.
- medicamentally — in a manner that relates to medicaments
- medieval greek — the Greek language of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500. Abbreviation: MGk, MGk., MGr.
- medieval latin — the Latin language of the literature of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500, including many Latinized words from other languages. Abbreviation: ML, M.L.
- medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
- medigap policy — A Medigap policy is a private extra health insurance plan in the U.S. that provides coverage for medical expenses that are not or only partially covered by Medicare.
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- megalocephalic — Cephalometry, Craniometry. macrocephalic.
- megalomaniacal — a person afflicted with megalomania.
- megascopically — macroscopically
- megasporophyll — a sporophyll producing megasporangia only.
- megatechnology — high technology that is developing rapidly
- melamine resin — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the interaction of melamine and formaldehyde: used chiefly as adhesives for laminated materials and as coatings for paper, plastics, and textiles.
- melamine-faced — having a thin melamine layer on one or more faces
- melancholiness — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- melanospermous — having dark spores, as certain seaweeds.
- melastomaceous — belonging to the family Melastomataceae (also known as Melastomaceae)
- melodramatized — Simple past tense and past participle of melodramatize.
- melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
- memorabilities — Plural form of memorability.
- mensural music — polyphonic music of the 13th century in which each note has a strictly determined value.
- mental cruelty — behaviour that causes distress to another person but that does not involve physical assault