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14-letter words containing e, r, m, l, i

  • 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 iranian — any of the Iranian languages spoken from about the first to the tenth centuries a.d., as Middle Persian.
  • middle persian — the Persian language at a stage that begins c300 b.c. and includes Pahlavi (attested from the 3rd to the 7th centuries a.d.) as well as the West Iranian literatures (3rd–10th centuries a.d.) of religions carried outside Persia. Abbreviation: MPers.
  • middle western — of or relating to the Middle West.
  • middle-ranking — A middle-ranking person has a fairly important or responsible position in a particular organization, but is not one of the most important people in it.
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • midlife crisis — a period of psychological stress occurring in middle age, thought to be triggered by a physical, occupational, or domestic event, as menopause, diminution of physical prowess, job loss, or departure of children from the home.
  • milieu therapy — a type of inpatient therapy, used in psychiatric hospitals, involving prescription of particular activities and social interactions according to a patient's emotional and interpersonal needs.
  • 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.
  • millenarianism — a belief in the millennium.
  • miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • milling cutter — any of various rotating toothed cutters used in a milling machine to cut or shape metal parts
  • millivoltmeter — A voltmeter that is sensitive enough to produce readings on the millivolt scale.
  • mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
  • mineral spring — a spring of water that contains a significant amount of dissolved minerals.
  • mineralisation — Alternative spelling of mineralization.
  • mineralization — to convert into a mineral substance.
  • miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
  • ministerialist — A supporter of the ministers, or the party in power.
  • mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
  • miracle worker — If you describe someone as a miracle worker, you mean that they have achieved or are able to achieve success in something that other people have found very difficult.
  • miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
  • miscellanarian — a person who writes miscellanies
  • miscorrelation — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
  • misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
  • mister charlie — a term used to refer to a white person.
  • mistletoe bird — a small Australian flower-pecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that feeds on mistletoe berries
  • mittag-leffler — Magnus Gösta [mahng-nuhs yœ-stah] /ˈmɑŋ nʌs ˈyœ stɑ/ (Show IPA), 1846–1927, Swedish mathematician.
  • mobile library — travelling book-lending facility
  • modern english — the English language since c1475.
  • molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
  • molly maguires — a secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions
  • mongrelization — to subject (a breed, group, etc.) to crossbreeding, especially with one considered inferior.
  • monoglycerides — Plural form of monoglyceride.
  • morgain le fay — Morgan le Fay.
  • mortality rate — number of deaths in a population
  • mortise chisel — framing chisel.
  • mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
  • mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
  • multarticulate — having multiple joints
  • multi-cultures — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
  • multi-part key — compound key
  • multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
  • multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
  • multicharacter — (of a book, play, film, etc) involving or relating to several characters
  • multicollinear — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting multicollinearity.
  • multielectrode — having or involving several electrodes
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