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14-letter words containing l, a, m, n

  • amylobarbitone — Obsolete spelling of amobarbital.
  • anagrammatical — Alternative form of anagrammatic.
  • analytical crm — (business)   Software which helps a business build customer relationships and analyse ways to improve them.
  • analyzed rhyme — the use of assonance and consonance in a complex pattern at the ends of alternate lines of a quatrain, as in head, mat, met, had.
  • angiomyolipoma — (medicine) A common benign tumour of the kidney.
  • angle of climb — the angle between the axis of motion of a climbing aircraft and the horizontal plane.
  • anglo-american — of or relating to relations between England and the United States or their peoples
  • anglo-saxonism — Saxonism.
  • animal cracker — a sweet or savoury biscuit in the shape of an animal
  • animal kingdom — a category of living organisms comprising all animals
  • animal shelter — an establishment, especially one supported by charitable contributions, that provides a temporary home for dogs, cats, and other animals that are offered for adoption.
  • animal spirits — cheerful and exuberant boisterousness
  • animal testing — Animal testing involves doing scientific tests on animals when developing new products or drugs.
  • animal welfare — the protection of the health and well-being of animals
  • anti-climactic — of, like, pertaining to, or expressing anticlimax.
  • anti-formalist — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
  • anti-smuggling — to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty.
  • anti-stimulant — Physiology, Medicine/Medical. something that temporarily quickens some vital process or the functional activity of some organ or part: Adrenalin is a stimulant for the heart. Compare depressant (def 4).
  • antialcoholism — the doctrine of being opposed to alcoholic drink
  • anticapitalism — opposition to capitalism
  • anticommercial — opposed to profit-seeking or commercialism
  • antidromically — in an antidromic manner
  • antifederalism — Alternative form of anti-federalism.
  • antihemophilic — That counteracts bleeding in hemophiliacs.
  • antihomosexual — opposed to homosexual people and behaviour
  • antiliberalism — a political ideology opposed to liberalism
  • antilogarithms — Plural form of antilogarithm.
  • antilymphocyte — (immunology, of an antibody) That acts against lymphocytes.
  • antimetabolite — any drug that acts by disrupting the normal growth of a cell. Sulfonamide drugs are antimetabolites and some antimetabolites are used in cancer treatment
  • antimicrobials — Plural form of antimicrobial.
  • antimilitarism — the opposition to militarism or to war between states
  • antimilitarist — opposed to militarism
  • antimonopolist — opposed to monopoly
  • antiradicalism — the opposition to radicalism
  • apsidal motion — the rotation of the major axis of an eccentric orbit in the plane of the orbit.
  • arabic numeral — one of the symbols 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 (opposed to Roman numerals)
  • arable farming — the growing of arable crops
  • armour-plating — The armour-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering which is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
  • assembly plant — An assembly plant is a factory where large items such as cars are put together, usually using parts which have been made in other factories.
  • assembly point — a designated place where people have been told to wait after evacuating a building in the event of a fire or other emergency
  • assemblyperson — a member of a legislative assembly, especially a member of the lower house of the legislature in certain states of the U.S.
  • astronomically — of, relating to, or connected with astronomy.
  • augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
  • autoenrollment — Automatic enrollment (especially of security certificates in a computer system).
  • bactrian camel — a two-humped camel, Camelus bactrianus, used as a beast of burden in the cold deserts of central Asia
  • ballroom dance — a social dance, popular since the beginning of the 20th century, in conventional rhythms, such as the foxtrot and the quickstep
  • balsaminaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Balsaminaceae, a family of flowering plants, including balsam and touch-me-not, that have irregular flowers and explosive capsules
  • banana problem — (programming, humour)   From the story of the little girl who said "I know how to spell "banana", but I don't know when to stop". Not knowing where or when to bring a production to a close (compare fencepost error). One may say "there is a banana problem" of an algorithm with poorly defined or incorrect termination conditions, or in discussing the evolution of a design that may be succumbing to featuritis (see also creeping elegance, creeping featuritis).
  • bandar lampung — a port in Indonesia, in S Sumatra on the Sunda Strait; formed by merging the cities of Tanjungkarang and Telukbetung, and sometimes still referred to as Tanjungkarang-Telukbetung. Pop: 742 749 (2000)
  • baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
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