14-letter words containing m, c, o, e, r
- dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
- diastereomeric — having the properties of or pertaining to a diastereoisomer
- diffractometer — an instrument that is used to study atomic crystal structure by measuring the angles at which x-rays, neutrons, or electrons are diffracted by matter.
- diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconcertment — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
- domestic rates — a type of taxation system used to fund local government
- dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
- dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
- echocardiogram — a graphic record produced by an echocardiograph.
- econometrician — Someone who studies economies with a view to mathematics.
- ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
- electric motor — a device that converts electrical energy to mechanical torque
- electric storm — a violent atmospheric disturbance in which the air is highly charged with static electricity, causing a storm
- electrochemist — A person who studies or is expert in electrochemistry.
- electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
- electroforming — a process used to create a metallic object by electrolytic deposition on a mould or matrix
- electromagnets — Plural form of electromagnet.
- electromotance — an electromotive force
- electromyogram — A record or display produced by electromyography.
- electron model — (electronics) A model of semiconductor behaviour in which donors contribute the charge of an electron, and acceptors contribute a space for same, in effect contributing a fictional positive charge of similiar magnitude. Physicists use the electron model. Some language theorists consider language and the electron to be models in themselves. Contrast hole model.
- electroosmosis — osmosis through a membrane that is caused by the action of an electric field, usually such a field generated by two electrodes, one on each side of the membrane
- electrothermal — concerned with both electricity and heat, esp the production of electricity by heat
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- emergency room — hospital: casualty department
- emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
- empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
- enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- endarterectomy — Surgical removal of part of the inner lining of an artery, together with any obstructive deposits, most often carried out on the carotid artery or on vessels supplying the legs.
- endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
- energy company — a company that produces energy, such as electricity
- enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
- ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
- film projector — an optical instrument in which a strip of film is wound past a lens at a fixed speed so that the frames can be viewed as a continuously moving sequence on a screen or wall