14-letter words containing m, i, n, a
- quasi-economic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
- quasi-informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
- questionmaster — quizmaster.
- quinnat salmon — chinook salmon.
- quinquagesimal — of, relating to, or consisting of a set of 50
- quota sampling — a method of conducting market research in which the sample is selected according to a quota-system based on such factors as age, sex, social class, etc
- quotation mark — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
- radiostrontium — strontium 90.
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- ramos gin fizz — a cocktail of gin, egg white, lime and lemon juice, sugar, and cream, shaken with ice and often topped with soda or seltzer.
- ramshorn snail — any of various freshwater snails
- random testing — (programming, testing) A black-box testing approach in which software is tested by choosing an arbitrary subset of all possible input values. Random testing helps to avoid the problem of only testing what you know will work.
- rastafarianism — a religious cult, originally of Jamaica, that regards Africa as the Promised Land, to which all true believers will someday return, and the late Haile Selassie I, former emperor of Ethiopia, as the messiah.
- re-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
- re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again
- re-enumeration — an act of enumerating.
- reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
- reamalgamation — the act or process of amalgamating.
- reappraisement — an act or the process of appraising someone or something again
- reassimilating — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- recommendation — an act of recommending.
- reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
- recrementitial — of, relating to, or consisting of recrement or waste matter
- reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
- reimplantation — the surgical restoration of a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure to its original site.
- relative minor — the minor key whose tonic is the sixth degree of a given major key.
- reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
- remittance man — a person who is supported abroad chiefly by remittances from home.
- remobilization — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- remonstrations — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- remoralization — the act of instilling with morals again; the act of making moral again
- repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- restorationism — belief in a future life in which human beings will be restored to a state of perfection and happiness
- retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
- retirement age — law: age sb stops working
- retirement pay — a pension; the pay a retired person gets
- retransmission — the act or process of transmitting.
- rhaeto-romanic — a Romance language consisting of Friulian, Tyrolese, Ladin, and the Romansh dialects.
- riemann sphere — a sphere used for a stereographic projection.
- right-hand man — an indispensable or invaluable assistant; right hand.
- rock formation — rock that is arranged or formed in a certain way
- rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
- roman catholic — of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.
- rosicrucianism — the practices or principles of Rosicrucians.
- 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.
- runoff primary — (especially in the southern U.S.) a second primary between the two leading candidates of the first primary to provide nomination by majority rather than by plurality.
- russian empire — Russia (def 1).
- 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.