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14-letter words containing n, o, s, t, e

  • listening post — Military. a post or position, as in advance of a defensive line, established for the purpose of listening to detect the enemy's movements.
  • llano estacado — a large plateau in the SW United States, in W Texas and SE New Mexico: cattle-grazing region. About 1000–5000 feet (300–1500 meters) above sea level.
  • 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.
  • longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
  • loose sentence — a sentence that does not end with the completion of its main clause, but continues with one or more subordinate clauses or other modifiers.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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
  • lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
  • macartney rose — a trailing or climbing evergreen rose, Rosa bracteata, of China, having shiny leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
  • machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
  • macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
  • magnetic storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
  • magnetospheres — Plural form of magnetosphere.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • magnetostatics — the branch of magnetics that deals with magnetic fields that do not vary with time (magnetostatic fields)
  • magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
  • make no secret — If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
  • man of letters — highly educated man
  • 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.
  • manifestations — An event, action, or object that clearly shows or embodies something, esp. a theory or an abstract idea.
  • masonry cement — a mix typically of Portland cement, hydrated lime, and other materials, used to improve the water retention and workability of the cement in masonry work.
  • master workman — a worker in charge.
  • maxwell montes — a compact mountain range on Ishtar Terra, one of the regions of highest elevation on Venus.
  • mediastinotomy — (surgery) incision of the mediastinum.
  • medicalisation — Alternative spelling of medicalization.
  • menage a trois — a domestic arrangement in which three people having sexual relations occupy the same household.
  • meniscocytosis — sickle cell anemia.
  • merionethshire — a historic county in Gwynedd, in N Wales.
  • mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
  • metafictionist — A writer of metafiction.
  • metalloenzymes — Plural form of metalloenzyme.
  • metallokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control metals.
  • metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
  • metencephalons — Plural form of metencephalon.
  • methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
  • meticulousness — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
  • mettlesomeness — The quality of being mettlesome.
  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • micromagnetism — (physics) The study of magnetism at the sub-micrometre scale.
  • micronutrients — Plural form of micronutrient.
  • mind the store — to tend to business
  • mineralisation — Alternative spelling of mineralization.
  • minor prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets
  • minor sentence — any sentence that is not a true full sentence; a transformation by deletion from a full sentence.
  • mis-coordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
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