14-letter words containing m, o, n, a, c, t
- semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
- shalach manoth — the practice of giving gifts to one another or to the needy on Purim.
- shooting match — a contest in marksmanship.
- shouting match — a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.
- simplification — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- slalom descent — a winding descent
- smart sanction — a sanction intended to affect only a particular area of a country's activities or economy
- smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
- somali current — a current of the Indian Ocean, flowing northward along the coast of Somalia in summer and southwestward the rest of the year.
- south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
- syntactic foam — any of several buoyant materials made up of tiny hollow spheres embedded in a surrounding plastic
- terminological — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
- the long march — a journey of about 10 000 km (6000 miles) undertaken (1934–35) by some 100 000 Chinese Communists when they were forced out of their base in Kiangsi in SE China. They made their way to Shensi in NW China; only about 8000 survived the rigours of the journey
- 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.
- thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
- transformistic — of or relating to transformism or transformists
- trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
- trichomoniasis — a sexually transmitted disease typically asymptomatic in men and resulting in vaginitis with a copious, frothy discharge and itching in women, caused by a trichomonad Trichomonas vaginalis.
- tropical month — the period of time taken by the moon to return to the same longitude after one complete revolution around the earth; 27.321 58 days (approximately 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 4.5 seconds)
- turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
- ultracompetent — extremely competent
- unaccommodated — not accommodated; not adapted.
- unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
- unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
- uncommunicated — that has not been communicated
- uncontaminated — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- uncontemplated — to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.
- uncontemporary — outmoded
- undogmatically — in an undogmatic manner
- undomesticated — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- unromantically — in an unromantic manner
- unromanticized — not romantic
- voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
- water moccasin — the cottonmouth.
- work placement — temporary job, internship
- zygomatic bone — a bone on each side of the face below the eye, forming the prominence of the cheek; cheekbone.