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14-letter words containing m, o, t, r, a, c

  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • endarterectomy — Surgical removal of part of the inner lining of an artery, together with any obstructive deposits, most often carried out on the carotid artery or on vessels supplying the legs.
  • ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
  • excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
  • exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
  • exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
  • extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
  • fifth monarchy — the fifth and final monarchy following the Assyrian, Persian, Greek (under Alexander the Great), and Roman monarchies, supposed to have been prophesied in Dan. 2.
  • fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
  • friction match — a kind of match tipped with a compound that ignites by friction.
  • gamma-carotene — one of the forms of the pigment carotene
  • geometric mean — the mean of n positive numbers obtained by taking the n th root of the product of the numbers: The geometric mean of 6 and 24 is 12.
  • geometric pace — a modern form of a Roman pace, a measure of length taken as 5 feet
  • haemocytometer — an apparatus for counting the number of cells in a quantity of blood, typically consisting of a graduated pipette for drawing and diluting the blood and a ruled glass slide on which the cells are counted under a microscope
  • hermaphroditic — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
  • heteroaromatic — a heterocyclic aromatic compound.
  • heteroromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the opposite gender.
  • hierogrammatic — of or relating to a hierogram
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • home secretary — the secretary of state for the Home Office.
  • hors de combat — disabled or injured
  • humoristically — In a humoristic way.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hyperchromatic — Hyperchromic.
  • hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • iatrochemistry — (in the 16th and 17th centuries) the study of chemistry in relation to the physiology, pathology, and treatment of disease.
  • image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
  • immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
  • immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
  • improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
  • income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
  • incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
  • incrementation — The act or process of incrementing.
  • interactionism — a theory that the mind and the body may each affect the other.
  • intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
  • intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
  • inverted comma — quotation mark.
  • isodiametrical — isodiametric
  • lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • levant morocco — a fine morocco leather with a large, irregular grain, used esp. in bookbinding
  • lithochromatic — relating to or produced by painting on stone
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • long-term care — continuing help and attention
  • macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
  • macartney rose — a trailing or climbing evergreen rose, Rosa bracteata, of China, having shiny leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
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