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

  • electrothermal — concerned with both electricity and heat, esp the production of electricity by heat
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • emilia-romagna — a region of N central Italy, on the Adriatic: rises from the plains of the Po valley in the north to the Apennines in the south. Capital: Bologna. Pop: 4 030 220 (2003 est). Area: 22 123 sq km (8628 sq miles)
  • employment law — rules governing working practices
  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
  • encompassingly — So as to encompass.
  • encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
  • enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
  • ephemeral port — (networking)   A TCP or UDP port number that is automatically allocated from a predefined range by the TCP/IP stack software, typically to provide the port for the client end of a client-server communication.
  • ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
  • estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
  • ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
  • etymologically — (domain) Based on or belonging to etymology.
  • 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.
  • exceptionalism — The state of being special, exceptional or unique.
  • exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
  • exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
  • fall army worm — the caterpillar of a widely distributed noctuid moth, Spodoptera frugiperda, which travels in vast hordes and is a serious pest of cereal crops in tropical regions of the western hemisphere
  • fall victim to — If you fall victim to something or someone, you suffer as a result of them, or you are killed by them.
  • family compact — any influential clique
  • family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
  • family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
  • farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
  • fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
  • female-to-male — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity and gender expression is male.
  • femoral artery — the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.
  • figwort family — the plant family Scrophulariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having alternate or opposite leaves, often showy two-lipped or irregular flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the figwort, foxglove, Indian paintbrush, mullein, speedwell, and snapdragon.
  • flagellomaniac — a person who is enthusiastic about or derives (sexual) pleasure from whipping or being whipped
  • flaked almonds — small flat pieces of almond used in cooking
  • flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
  • flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
  • flavorsomeness — The quality of being flavorsome.
  • florists' foam — a rigid, deformable, spongelike plastic used in floral arrangements to secure the stems of flowers.
  • flotsam-jetsam — the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan.
  • fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • foot patrolman — a policeman assigned to patrol a particular area on foot
  • football match — a match played between two football teams
  • footplatewoman — a female footplate worker
  • forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
  • formal grammar — a set of syntactically valid formation rules of a formal language
  • formal methods — (mathematics, specification)   Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
  • formally valid — (of an inference or argument) when the inference is justified by the form of the premises and conclusion alone. Thus Tom is a bachelor; therefore Tom is unmarried is valid but not formally so, while today is hot and dry; therefore today is hot is formally valid
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
  • foxtail millet — a grass, Setaria italica, of numerous varieties, introduced into the U.S. from Europe and Asia, and grown chiefly for use as hay.
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