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14-letter words containing m, i, n, y, a

  • normoglycaemic — Alt form normoglycemic.
  • nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
  • numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
  • numismatically — Of or relating to coins or currency.
  • nymphomaniacal — a woman who has abnormally excessive and uncontrollable sexual desire.
  • one-way mirror — a sheet of glass that can be seen through from one side and is a mirror on the other, used especially for observation of criminal suspects by law-enforcement officials or witnesses.
  • oxyhaemoglobin — the bright red product formed when oxygen from the lungs combines with haemoglobin in the blood
  • oxymoronically — in an oxymoronic way
  • oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
  • paleolimnology — the study of ancient lakes from their sediments and fossils.
  • pantomimically — in the manner of a pantomime character or performance
  • parsimoniously — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
  • pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
  • petty criminal — someone who commits petty crime or a petty crime
  • pneumatic tyre — a rubber tyre filled with air under pressure, used esp on motor vehicles
  • pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
  • polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
  • prayer meeting — a meeting chiefly for prayer.
  • praying mantis — mantis.
  • primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
  • psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
  • public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
  • pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • retirement pay — a pension; the pay a retired person gets
  • 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.
  • sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
  • semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
  • sentimentality — the quality or state of being sentimental or excessively sentimental.
  • ship's company — company (def 11).
  • simultaneously — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • snowy mountain — of or relating to the Snowy Mountains of Australia or their inhabitants
  • sodium cyanide — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating.
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
  • surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
  • synaposematism — the display of common warning colours between different organisms inhabiting the same region
  • syntactic foam — any of several buoyant materials made up of tiny hollow spheres embedded in a surrounding plastic
  • syrian hamster — golden hamster.
  • systematicness — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
  • talismanically — in a talismanic manner
  • tandem bicycle — a bicycle for two or more persons, having seats and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem, especially popular in the 19th century.
  • testamentarily — in a testamentary manner
  • 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.
  • transit system — public transport service
  • transmissivity — a measure of the ability of a material or medium to transmit electromagnetic energy, as light.
  • transmittivity — the transmittance of unit thickness of a substance, neglecting any scattering effects
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