14-letter words containing o, d, m, a, n
- dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
- dolomitization — the conversion of limestone into dolomite.
- domain address — (networking) The name of a host on the Internet belonging to the hierarchy of Internet domains.
- domestications — Plural form of domestication.
- doom and gloom — gloom and doom.
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- draconic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- 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.
- drop an f-bomb — to use the word fuck in a situation where it will cause great offence
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- 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
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- 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.
- endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
- endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- 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.
- flaked almonds — small flat pieces of almond used in cooking
- flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- garden webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
- global dimming — a decrease in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth, believed to be caused by pollution in the atmosphere
- gloom and doom — an account or prediction of adversity, especially in economic or business affairs; bad news: a trade journal full of gloom and doom about next year's trends.
- 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.
- gregorian mode — church mode.
- group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
- gynandromorphs — Plural form of gynandromorph.
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- have a mind to — think about doing
- hexosaminidase — the enzymes that catalyse the metabolism of gangliosides
- hold to ransom — to keep (prisoners, property, etc) in confinement until payment for their release is made or received
- home and hosed — definitely safe or successful
- homeward bound — going home
- household name — a person or thing that is very well known
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- humidification — to make humid.
- hydrodynamical — Hydrodynamic.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.