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14-letter words containing m, e, s, n, t

  • symmetry plane — reflection plane.
  • synaposematism — the display of common warning colours between different organisms inhabiting the same region
  • syrian hamster — golden hamster.
  • systematicness — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
  • tam-o'-shanter — a cap of Scottish origin, usually made of wool, having a round, flat top that projects all around the head and has a pompon at its center.
  • tax adjustment — a change to the amount of tax owed by a company or individual
  • telejournalism — the writing and broadcasting of journalism for television
  • tender mercies — discretion or compassion
  • tenement house — a building divided into tenements, or apartments, now specif. one in the slums that is run-down, overcrowded, etc.
  • tenement-house — Also called tenement house. a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.
  • term insurance — an insurance policy that provides coverage for a limited period, the value payable only if a loss occurs within the term, with nothing payable upon its expiration.
  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
  • terminus a quo — the end from which; beginning; starting point; earliest limiting point.
  • test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
  • testamentarily — in a testamentary manner
  • testimonialize — to honor (someone) by giving or doing something testimonial.
  • text messaging — sending typed mobile phone messages
  • the humanities — the study of literature, philosophy, and the arts
  • the omniscient — God
  • the samaritans — a voluntary organization which offers counselling to people in despair, esp by telephone
  • the surinamese — the people of Surinam collectively
  • the worm turns — If you say that the worm turns, you mean that someone who usually obeys another person or accepts their bad behaviour unexpectedly starts resisting that person or expresses their anger.
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • thermostatting — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • thomson effect — the tendency of unevenly heated segments of a strip of a conductor to increase or decrease in temperature differences when an electric current is passed through the strip.
  • time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
  • time-consuming — (of an action) requiring or wasting much time.
  • time-sensitive — physically changing as time passes
  • to mend fences — If one country tries to mend fences with another, it tries to end a disagreement or quarrel with the other country. You can also say that two countries mend fences.
  • to one's bosom — If you take someone or something to your bosom, you accept them and treat or regard them with great affection.
  • torrens system — (in Australia, England, Canada, certain states of the U.S., etc.) a system of registration of land titles in which the titles are settled consequent to establishment and validation by a legal proceeding, designed chiefly to make title insurance unnecessary and to facilitate transfers.
  • trade unionism — the system, methods, or practice of trade or labor unions.
  • transempirical — beyond the range of experiential knowledge.
  • transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.
  • transit system — public transport service
  • transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
  • transsexualism — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
  • treponematosis — an infection caused by an organism of the genus Treponema, as syphilis, pinta, bejel, or yaws.
  • tridimensional — having three dimensions.
  • tripersonalism — the doctrine of three persons making up the Trinity
  • trumpeter swan — a large, pure-white, wild swan, Cygnus buccinator, of North America, having a sonorous cry: once near extinction, the species is now recovering.
  • turnkey system — Computers. a computer system purchased from hardware and software vendors, customized and put in working order by a firm that then sells the completed system to the client that ordered it.
  • tymshare, inc. — (company)   The US company that created the TYMNET network.
  • ultramasculine — extremely masculine
  • umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
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