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14-letter words containing m, r, s, c, a

  • mister charlie — a term used to refer to a white person.
  • mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
  • mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
  • money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
  • monochromatism — the quality of having one color: the monochromatism of Picasso's Blue Period.
  • monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
  • moralistically — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
  • morris dancing — Morris dancing is a type of old English country dancing which is performed by people wearing special costumes.
  • mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
  • mpeg-4 aac ssr — MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding Scalable Sampling Rate
  • multiracialism — The promotion of a diverse society composed of various races with different cultural backgrounds.
  • musical chairs — Also called going to Jerusalem. a game in which players march to music around two rows of chairs placed back to back, there being one chair less than the number of players, the object being to find a seat when the music stops abruptly. The player failing to do so is removed from the game, together with one chair, at each interval.
  • myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
  • narcoterrorism — terrorist tactics employed by dealers in illicit drugs, as against competitors or government agents.
  • necessarianism — (philosophy, metaphysics, theology) An extreme form of determinism that holds that all phenomena, including the will, are subject to immutable rules of cause and effect; necessitarianism.
  • neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
  • neoromanticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) Fine Arts. a style of painting developed in the 20th century, chiefly characterized by forms or images that project a sense of nostalgia and fantasy.
  • neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
  • neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
  • noncharismatic — a person or group not involved in the Christian charismatic movement
  • nonchromosomal — any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order: the human species has 23 pairs, designated 1 to 22 in order of decreasing size and X and Y for the female and male sex chromosomes respectively.
  • nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
  • nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
  • nuclear isomer — isomer (def 2).
  • ockham's razor — Occam's razor.
  • ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
  • open classroom — a spacious instructional area shared by several groups or classes in elementary school, permitting more individualized, less supervised project learning and movement of pupils from one activity to another.
  • optical isomer — any of two or more isomers exhibiting optical isomerism.
  • oral eroticism — libidinal pleasure derived from the lips and mouth, for example by kissing
  • osteochondroma — (medicine) A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage.
  • osteosarcomata — Plural form of osteosarcoma.
  • overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • pan-africanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the African nations.
  • parasitic male — a male animal that is much smaller than the female and is totally dependent on the female for its nutrition, such as the male of some species of deep-sea angler fish
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • patriarchalism — a philosophy, form, or system of patriarchal government.
  • peripateticism — walking or traveling about; itinerant.
  • permaculturist — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
  • petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • phantasmagoric — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
  • pharmacologist — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • pharmacopolist — a person who sells pharmaceutical products
  • plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • precision-made — made to precise specifications
  • presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
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