14-letter words containing n, o, s, e, a, l
- loquaciousness — talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest.
- lorraine cross — cross of Lorraine.
- lose one's rag — If you lose your rag, you suddenly become so angry that you are not in control of yourself.
- lose one's way — If you lose your way, you become lost when you are trying to go somewhere.
- louis napoleon — (Louis Napoleon; Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte) [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1808–73, president of France 1848–52, emperor of France 1852–70 (nephew of Napoleon I).
- love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
- low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
- lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- lower silurian — Ordovician
- lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
- luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
- lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
- male menopause — a malaise that allegedly affects men in middle age and is said to be responsible for periods of emotional upset and uncharacteristic behavior.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- malodorousness — The state or condition of being malodorous.
- man of letters — highly educated man
- 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.
- marrons glaces — chestnuts cooked in syrup and glazed
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- marvellousness — The quality or state of being marvellous.
- maxwell montes — a compact mountain range on Ishtar Terra, one of the regions of highest elevation on Venus.
- mayonnaiselike — Resembling mayonnaise.
- mean solar day — day (def 3a).
- medicalisation — Alternative spelling of medicalization.
- melancholiness — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- melanospermous — having dark spores, as certain seaweeds.
- mesencephalons — Plural form of mesencephalon.
- metalloenzymes — Plural form of metalloenzyme.
- metallokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control metals.
- metencephalons — Plural form of metencephalon.
- methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- mineralisation — Alternative spelling of mineralization.
- miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- miscorrelation — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
- misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
- moment of sail — the product of a given area of sail, taken as the maximum safe area, and the vertical distance from the center of effort and the center of lateral resistance.
- mount pleasant — a city in central Michigan.
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- multisectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- nacreous cloud — a rarely seen, luminous, iridescent cloud shaped like a cirrus or altocumulus, approximately 15 miles (24 km) above the earth, and of unknown composition.
- nasopharyngeal — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
- national dress — the traditional clothing of a country
- national press — newspapers which concern national events of a country collectively
- national tests — externally devised assessments in the core subjects of English, mathematics, and science that school students in England and Wales sit at the end of Key Stages 1 to 3
- natural person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- neil armstrong — (Daniel) Louis ("Satchmo") 1900–71, U.S. jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
- nelson mandela — Nelson (Rolihlahla) [raw-lee-lah-luh] /ˌrɔ liˈlɑ lə/ (Show IPA), 1918–2013, South African black antiapartheid activist: president of South Africa 1994–99.