14-letter words containing n, o, m, a, d, t
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- dramatic irony — irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
- dramatisations — Plural form of dramatisation.
- dramatizations — Plural form of dramatization.
- dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
- electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
- eminent domain — government seizure of property
- 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.
- endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
- fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
- fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
- golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
- gonadectomized — Having undergone gonadectomy.
- good samaritan — a person who gratuitously gives help or sympathy to those in distress. Luke 10:30–37.
- have a mind to — think about doing
- hold to ransom — to keep (prisoners, property, etc) in confinement until payment for their release is made or received
- humidification — to make humid.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- immoderateness — The quality of being immoderate, lack of moderation or temperance.
- immunodominant — Of or pertaining to the epitope of a molecule that provokes the most intense immune response.
- indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
- indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
- indomitability — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
- intermediation — the act of intermediating.
- intermediatory — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
- intraabdominal — Within the cavity of the abdomen.
- inverted comma — quotation mark.
- jackson method — (programming) A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
- legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- macadamization — to pave by laying and compacting successive layers of broken stone, often with asphalt or hot tar.
- main door flat — a flat in a tenement that can be accessed directly from outside rather than one which can only be accessed via a communal stairwell
- malapportioned — (of a state or other political unit) poorly apportioned, especially divided, organized, or structured in a manner that prevents large sections of a population from having equitable representation in a legislative body.
- malcontentedly — in a discontented manner
- maldevelopment — malformation
- male-dominated — with men in control
- man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
- managed forest — a sustainable forest in which usually at least one tree is planted for every tree felled
- mandelbrot set — (mathematics, graphics) (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that | z[N] | < 2 for arbitrarily large values of N, where z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black. The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- matara diamond — a zircon heat-treated to render it colorless: not a true diamond.
- mean deviation — a measure of dispersion, computed by taking the arithmetic mean of the absolute values of the deviations of the functional values from some central value, usually the mean or median.
- mediastinotomy — (surgery) incision of the mediastinum.
- medicalisation — Alternative spelling of medicalization.