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14-letter words containing m, o, s, t

  • antimonopolist — opposed to monopoly
  • antipositivism — The view in social science that the social realm may not be subject to the same methods of investigation as the natural world.
  • antispasmodics — Plural form of antispasmodic.
  • apheliotropism — a tendency of certain plants to turn away from the sun; negative heliotropism
  • apocalypticism — the belief in apocalyptic prophecy
  • aposematically — in an aposematic manner
  • appendectomies — Plural form of appendectomy.
  • apportionments — Plural form of apportionment.
  • approximations — Plural form of approximation.
  • apsidal motion — the rotation of the major axis of an eccentric orbit in the plane of the orbit.
  • archaeometrist — a person who uses archaeometry
  • arctic monkeys — British rock group (formed 2002): comprising Alex Turner (born 1986; vocals, guitar), Jamie Cook (born 1985, guitar), Matt Helders (born 1986, drums, vocals) and Nick O'Malley (born 1985, bass guitar); their albums include Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006), Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007), and AM (2013)
  • argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
  • arms inspector — a person who carries out an arms inspection
  • aromatherapist — An aromatherapist is a person who is qualified to practise aromatherapy.
  • arrondissement — the largest administrative subdivision of a department
  • as a matter of — If you are going to do something as a matter of urgency or priority, you are going to do it as soon as possible, because it is important.
  • assembly point — a designated place where people have been told to wait after evacuating a building in the event of a fire or other emergency
  • associationism — a theory that all mental activity is based on connections between basic mental events, such as sensations and feelings
  • asthenospermia — (medicine) Loss or reduction in the strength or energy of sperm cells, hence infertility. Not always infertile many are subfertile.
  • asthenospermic — (medicine) Characterised by or pertaining to asthenospermia, hence infertile.
  • astigmatometer — an apparatus for measuring the degree of astigmatism.
  • astigmatoscope — an instrument for determining the presence and severity of astigmatism.
  • astigmatoscopy — examination by means of an astigmatoscope.
  • astrochemistry — the study of the chemistry of celestial bodies and space, esp by means of spectroscopy
  • astrocompasses — Plural form of astrocompass.
  • astronomically — of, relating to, or connected with astronomy.
  • asymptotically — of or relating to an asymptote.
  • at one's mercy — compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.
  • atomic physics — the branch of physics concerned with the structure and behaviour of atomic nuclei
  • axiomatisation — the process of reducing down to a system of basic truths, or axioms
  • backstrap loom — a simple horizontal loom, used especially in Central and South America, on which one of two beams holding the warp yarn is attached to a strap that passes across the weaver's back.
  • balsam of tolu — tolu
  • baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
  • baptismal vows — the solemn promises made during baptism, either by the person baptized or by his or her sponsors
  • base community — (especially in South America) a group of people taking part in religious devotions and Bible study, who seek to apply this in their socioeconomic and political situation.
  • base component — the system of rules in a transformational grammar that specify the deep structure of the language
  • basidiomycetes — Mycology. any of a group of fungi constituting the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or, in older classification schemes, the class Basidiomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), characterized by bearing the spores on a basidium, including the smuts, rust, mushrooms, and puffballs.
  • bayes' theorem — the fundamental result which expresses the conditional probability P(E/A) of an event E given an event A as P(A/E).P(E)/P(A); more generally, where En is one of a set of values Ei which partition the sample space, P(En/A) = P(A/En)P(En)/Σ P(A/Ei)P(Ei). This enables prior estimates of probability to be continually revised in the light of observations
  • beclomethasone — a potent synthetic corticosteroid, C 28 H 37 ClO 7 , prepared as an inhalant in the treatment of bronchial asthma.
  • bermuda shorts — close-fitting shorts that come down to the knees
  • big brotherism — paternalistic authoritarianism that seeks to supply the needs and regulate the conduct of people.
  • bikini bottoms — the part of a bikini worn over the groin
  • billy no-mates — a person with no friends
  • bioinformatics — the branch of information science concerned with large databases of biochemical or pharmaceutical information
  • bioluminescent — the production of light by living organisms.
  • biomathematics — the study of the application of mathematics to biology
  • biometric risk — Biometric risk covers all risks related to human life conditions, such as death, birth, disability, age, and number of children.
  • biosystematics — the study of the variation and evolution of a population of organisms in relation to their taxonomic classification
  • biosystematist — someone who studies or works professionally in the field of biosystematics
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