14-letter words containing e, l, s, m, r
- lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
- mackerel shark — any of several fierce sharks of the family Lamidae, including the great white shark and the mako.
- macrocephalous — Having a large head.
- macromolecules — Plural form of macromolecule.
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
- malefactresses — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- malodorousness — The state or condition of being malodorous.
- man of letters — highly educated man
- 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.
- mannerlessness — The state or condition of being mannerless.
- manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
- maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
- marcus regulus — Marcus Atilius [uh-til-ee-uh s] /əˈtɪl i əs/ (Show IPA), died 250? b.c, Roman general.
- mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
- marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
- marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- marrons glaces — chestnuts cooked in syrup and glazed
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- marsupial mole — a burrowing Australian marsupial of the genus Notoryctes, resembling a common mole in form and behavior.
- marvellousness — The quality or state of being marvellous.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- mean solar day — day (def 3a).
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- megasporophyll — a sporophyll producing megasporangia only.
- 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.
- melanospermous — having dark spores, as certain seaweeds.
- memorabilities — Plural form of memorability.
- mensural music — polyphonic music of the 13th century in which each note has a strictly determined value.
- mercalli scale — a measure of earthquake intensity with 12 divisions ranging from I (felt by very few) to XII (total destruction).
- mercantilistic — Relating to, or characteristic of mercantilism.
- merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
- meretriciously — In a meretricious manner.
- merritt island — a town in E Florida.
- metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
- meteorologists — Plural form of meteorologist.
- metrical psalm — a translation of one of the psalms into rhyming strict-metre verse usually sung as a hymn
- metrosexuality — The quality of being metrosexual.
- microcephalous — Microcephalic.
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- microsatellite — A miniature satellite.
- microspherical — relating to or designating a microsphere