14-letter words containing m, e, d, i
- dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
- dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- dutch medicine — patent medicine, esp made of herbs
- dyalog limited — (company) The company that distributes Dyalog APL. Previously known as Dyadic Systems Limited.
- dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
- dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
- e-mail address — electronic mail address
- echocardiogram — a graphic record produced by an echocardiograph.
- economic model — model (def 10).
- ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- edaphic climax — a localized climax community that may differ from the surrounding climax vegetation by reason of slightly differing soil type, exposure to sun and wind, drainage, etc.
- edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
- electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
- eminent domain — government seizure of property
- empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
- endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
- enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
- epidemiologist — A scientist (often a medical doctor) who specializes in epidemiology.
- epigrammatized — Simple past tense and past participle of epigrammatize.
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- 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.
- excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
- extrapyramidal — Relating to or denoting nerves concerned with motor activity that descend from the cortex to the spine and are not part of the pyramidal system.
- fairmindedness — Alt form fair-mindedness.
- fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
- faute de mieux — for lack of anything better
- feeblemindedly — Alt form feeble-mindedly.
- fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fideicommissum — a request by a decedent that the heir or legatee to the estate convey a specified part of the estate to another person, or permit another person to enjoy such a part.
- field emission — the removal of electrons from a metallic conductor by a strong electric field.
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- fiery-tempered — easily angered
- final judgment — judgment (def 8).
- finite decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
- fireworks mode — The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn operation.
- foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- freedom riders — (especially in the 1960s) a bus trip made to parts of the southern U.S. by persons engaging in efforts to integrate racially segregated public facilities.
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
- fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
- fundamentality — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
- genome editing — the insertion or removal of DNA at a specific site on a genome using artificially engineered nucleases
- geodemographic — Of or pertaining to geography and demography.
- gerrymandering — U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
- gluteus medius — the muscle of the buttocks lying between the gluteus maximus and the gluteus minimus, involved in the abduction of the thigh.