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14-letter words containing o, i, l, m

  • antimetabolite — any drug that acts by disrupting the normal growth of a cell. Sulfonamide drugs are antimetabolites and some antimetabolites are used in cancer treatment
  • antimicrobials — Plural form of antimicrobial.
  • antimonopolist — opposed to monopoly
  • apheliotropism — a tendency of certain plants to turn away from the sun; negative heliotropism
  • apocalypticism — the belief in apocalyptic prophecy
  • aposematically — in an aposematic manner
  • apothegmatical — Relating to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy.
  • apsidal motion — the rotation of the major axis of an eccentric orbit in the plane of the orbit.
  • armour-plating — The armour-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering which is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
  • assembly point — a designated place where people have been told to wait after evacuating a building in the event of a fire or other emergency
  • astronomically — of, relating to, or connected with astronomy.
  • asymptotically — of or relating to an asymptote.
  • atomic orbital — Physics, Chemistry. a wave function describing the state of a single electron in an atom (atomic orbital) or in a molecule (molecular orbital) the electron in that state.
  • aurothiomalate — (chemistry) A thiomalate with the addition of gold.
  • autocollimator — an instrument combining the functions of a telescope and collimator, for detecting and measuring very small deviations in a beam of light.
  • balm of gilead — any of several trees of the burseraceous genus Commiphora, esp C. opobalsamum of Africa and W Asia, that yield a fragrant oily resin
  • balm-of-gilead — any of several plants of the genus Commiphora, especially C. opobalsamum and C. meccanensis, which yield a fragrant oleoresin.
  • balsaminaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Balsaminaceae, a family of flowering plants, including balsam and touch-me-not, that have irregular flowers and explosive capsules
  • baltimore chop — a batted ball that takes a high bounce upon hitting the ground on or immediately in front of home plate, often enabling the batter to reach first base safely.
  • baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
  • baptismal vows — the solemn promises made during baptism, either by the person baptized or by his or her sponsors
  • barometrically — By means of a barometer.
  • believe you me — You can use believe you me to emphasize that what you are saying is true.
  • benzosulfimide — saccharin.
  • bibliomaniacal — relating to a bibliomaniac
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • billy no-mates — a person with no friends
  • bioclimatology — the study of the effects of climatic conditions on living organisms
  • biogeochemical — of or relating to biogeochemistry
  • bioluminescent — the production of light by living organisms.
  • biometeorology — the study of the effect of weather conditions on living organisms
  • bioregionalism — the conviction that environmental and social policies should be determined by the bioregion rather than economics or politics
  • black diamonds — carbonado1 .
  • block mountain — a mountain produced by faulting and the uplifting of large blocks of rock
  • block sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical literary analysis by random selection of a starting point and consideration of the continuous passage following it
  • blue mountains — a mountain range in the US, in NE Oregon and SE Washington. Highest peak: Rock Creek Butte, 2773 m (9097 ft)
  • bomb explosion — an explosion caused by the detonation of a bomb
  • bottomless pit — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
  • boy-meets-girl — conventionally or trivially romantic
  • browntail moth — kind of moth
  • bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
  • by acclamation — by an overwhelming majority without a ballot
  • by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
  • cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
  • calamata olive — a purplish-black, almond-shaped olive with a fruity flavor and meaty texture, often split and cured in brine and packed in vinegar.
  • caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
  • calumniousness — Calumny.
  • camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
  • camillo cavour — Camillo Benso di [kah-meel-law ben-saw dee] /kɑˈmil lɔ ˈbɛn sɔ di/ (Show IPA), 1810–61, Italian statesman: leader in the unification of Italy.
  • canonical name — (CNAME) A host's official name as opposed to an alias. The official name is the first hostname listed for its Internet address in the hostname database, /etc/hosts or the Network Information Service (NIS) map hosts.byaddr ("hosts" for short). A host with multiple network interfaces may have more than one Internet address, each with its own canonical name (and zero or more aliases). You can find a host's canonical name using nslookup if you say set querytype=CNAME and then type a hostname.
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