14-letter words containing m, o, r, e, l
- empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
- ephemeral port — (networking) A TCP or UDP port number that is automatically allocated from a predefined range by the TCP/IP stack software, typically to provide the port for the client end of a client-server communication.
- ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
- family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- femoral artery — the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- film projector — an optical instrument in which a strip of film is wound past a lens at a fixed speed so that the frames can be viewed as a continuously moving sequence on a screen or wall
- flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
- flavorsomeness — The quality of being flavorsome.
- flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
- flowering moss — pyxie.
- fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
- forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- frolicsomeness — The quality of being frolicsome; playfulness.
- from the floor — during the time of a game when active defense is permitted
- frontotemporal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the frontal and temporal bones or lobes.
- generalissimos — Plural form of generalissimo.
- george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
- golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
- good-time girl — a young woman whose chief concern is seeking pleasure and having fun
- governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
- gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- health problem — ailment or disorder
- health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- helicopter mom — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
- hemerocallises — Plural form of hemerocallis.
- hemlock looper — the larva of a geometrid moth, Lambdina fiscellaria, common in some areas of North America and a serious pest of various trees, as hemlock, Douglas fir, balsam spruce, and oak.
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
- hero's welcome — a very enthusiastic reception from a group of people who show their admiration for something good that you have done
- holter monitor — a portable electrocardiograph worn by a patient over an extended period of time to assess the effects on heart function of activities of daily living.
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- homeric simile — a simile developed over several lines of verse, especially one used in an epic poem.
- homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
- horse mackerel — bluefin tuna.
- humourlessness — Alternative spelling of humorlessness.
- hydrothermally — By hydrothermal means.