14-letter words containing n, i, e, r, s, t
- kaiserslautern — a city in S Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany.
- karitane nurse — a nurse trained in the care of young babies and their mothers according to the principles of the Plunket Society
- kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
- kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
- kindred spirit — likeminded person
- king's pattern — a spoon pattern of the 19th century having a stem decorated with threads, scrolls, and shell motifs.
- king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
- lake trasimene — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria: the largest lake in central Italy; scene of Hannibal's victory over the Romans in 217 bc. Area: 128 sq km (49 sq miles)
- landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- lateralisation — Alternative spelling of lateralization.
- laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
- laurent series — a power series in which the negative as well as the positive powers appear.
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- leisure centre — A leisure centre is a large public building containing different facilities for leisure activities, such as a sports hall, a swimming pool, and rooms for meetings.
- liberalisation — (British) alternative spelling of liberalization.
- libertarianism — a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.
- liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
- life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- little russian — former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
- low-resolution — of or relating to CRTs, printers, or other visual output devices that produce images that are not sharply defined (opposed to high-resolution).
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
- magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
- magnetic storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
- magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
- mass marketing — the organization of the sale of a product to a large number of people
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- master mariner — a sailor who has achieved a level of competence and experience to be qualified to act as captain of a merchant ship
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- matjes herring — young herring that have not spawned, often prepared with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.
- menage a trois — a domestic arrangement in which three people having sexual relations occupy the same household.
- mercantilistic — Relating to, or characteristic of mercantilism.
- merionethshire — a historic county in Gwynedd, in N Wales.
- merritt island — a town in E Florida.
- metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
- metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metanarratives — Plural form of metanarrative.
- methane series — alkane series.
- metric madness — excessive devotion to metrication
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- micromagnetism — (physics) The study of magnetism at the sub-micrometre scale.
- micronutrients — Plural form of micronutrient.