14-letter words containing m, e, n, a, r, c
- overcompliance — excessive compliance
- overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
- pancreatectomy — excision of part or all of the pancreas.
- panoramic view — wide vista or landscape
- parchment worm — any of several polychaete worms of the genus Chaetopterus that secrete and live in a U -shaped, parchmentlike tube.
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parent company — a corporation or other business enterprise that owns controlling interests in one or more subsidiary companies (distinguished from holding company).
- permanent echo — a radar signal reflected to a radar station on the ground by a building or other fixed object.
- petty criminal — someone who commits petty crime or a petty crime
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- pharmacopoeian — an individual who has expert knowledge of a pharmacopoeia
- pinhole camera — a simple camera in which an aperture provided by a pinhole in an opaque diaphragm is used in place of a lens.
- plenum-chamber — a system of mechanical ventilation in which fresh air is forced into the spaces to be ventilated from a chamber (plenum chamber) at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, so as to expel foul air.
- pneumatic tire — wheel cover filled with pressurized air
- pneumatic tyre — a rubber tyre filled with air under pressure, used esp on motor vehicles
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
- pre-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
- precision-made — made to precise specifications
- premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
- preperformance — occurring before a performance
- primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
- promenade deck — an upper deck or part of a deck on a passenger ship where passengers can stroll, often covered with a light shade deck.
- pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
- proto-germanic — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Germanic languages; Germanic.
- quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
- raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
- reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- recommendation — an act of recommending.
- recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
- record company — business: sells recorded music
- recrementitial — of, relating to, or consisting of recrement or waste matter
- reference mark — Surveying. a permanent mark set at a specific distance in a specific direction from a survey station so as to permit accurate reestablishment of the station.
- remanufacturer — a company or industry that engages in making an existing product new again
- reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
- remittance man — a person who is supported abroad chiefly by remittances from home.
- rhaeto-romance — the group of closely related Romance dialects, including Romansch and Ladin, spoken in SE Switzerland, the Tirol, and N Italy
- rhaeto-romanic — a Romance language consisting of Friulian, Tyrolese, Ladin, and the Romansh dialects.
- rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
- roman calendar — the calendar in use in ancient Rome until 46 b.c., when it was replaced with the Julian calendar.
- rowing machine — an exercise machine having a mechanism with two oarlike handles, foot braces, and a sliding seat, allowing the user to go through the motions of rowing in a racing shell.
- sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sacramentalism — a belief in or emphasis on the importance and efficacy of the sacraments for achieving salvation and conferring grace.
- sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sacramentarian — a person who maintains that the Eucharistic elements have only symbolic significance and are not corporeal manifestations of Christ.