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14-letter words containing e, n, c, h

  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • licentiateship — a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.
  • lichenological — relating to lichenology
  • life-enhancing — If you describe something as life-enhancing, you mean that it makes you feel happier and more content.
  • light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
  • lip microphone — a microphone designed and shaped to be held close to the mouth, for use in noisy environments
  • liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
  • low technology — any technology utilizing equipment and production techniques that are relatively unsophisticated (opposed to high technology).
  • lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
  • macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
  • machine finish — a very smooth paper surface, created by a machine.
  • machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
  • machine stitch — a stitch created by a sewing machine
  • machine-stitch — to sew on a sewing machine.
  • magnetic chart — a chart showing the magnetic properties of a portion of the earth's surface, as dip, variation, and intensity.
  • magnetic epoch — a geologically long period of time during which the magnetic field of the earth retains the same polarity. The magnetic field may reverse during such a period for a geologically short period of time (a magnetic event)
  • 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.
  • mail exchanger — (messaging)   A server running SMTP Message Transfer Agent software that accepts incoming electronic mail and either delivers it locally or forwards it to another server. The mail exchanger to use for a given domain can be discovered by querying DNS for Mail Exchange Records.
  • make the scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
  • mariana trench — a depression in the ocean floor of the Pacific, S and W of the Mariana Islands: site of greatest known depth of any ocean. 36,201 feet (11,034 meters) deep.
  • marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
  • mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
  • mathematicians — Plural form of mathematician.
  • mechanicalness — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being mechanical.
  • mechanicsville — a village in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle 1862.
  • mechanotherapy — curative treatment by mechanical means.
  • medicine chest — bathroom cabinet
  • medicine wheel — a Native American ceremonial tool representing a sacred circle
  • megatechnology — high technology that is developing rapidly
  • melancholiness — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
  • merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
  • merchant fleet — the total number of civilian ships of a country carrying either passengers or cargo (goods)
  • merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
  • mesencephalons — Plural form of mesencephalon.
  • mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
  • metaphysicians — Plural form of metaphysician.
  • metencephalons — Plural form of metencephalon.
  • methanoic acid — systematic name for formic acid
  • methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
  • michael jordan — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
  • microtechnique — the art of preparing something so that it can properly be examined using a microscope
  • middle chinese — the Chinese language of the 7th and 8th centuries a.d. Abbreviation: MChin.
  • mischief night — Halloween or, in some areas, the night before Halloween, as an occasion for pranks and minor vandalism by young people.
  • mmx technology — Matrix Math eXtensions
  • mnemotechnical — Of or pertaining to mnemotechny.
  • model checking — (theory, algorithm, testing)   To algorithmically check whether a program (the model) satisfies a specification. The model is usually expressed as a directed graph consisting of nodes (or vertices) and edges. A set of atomic propositions is associated with each node. The nodes represents states of a program, the edges represent possible executions which alters the state, while the atomic propositions represent the basic properties that hold at a point of execution. A specification language, usually some kind of temporal logic, is used to express properties. The problem can be expressed mathematically as: given a temporal logic formula p and a model M with initial state s, decide if M,s \models p.
  • money changing — the business of exchanging one currency for another, with the deduction of a commission for the service.
  • money-changing — the business or act of exchanging currency, usually of different countries, esp. at a set rate
  • 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
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