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14-letter words containing r, e, a, s, t

  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
  • lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
  • legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
  • leisure retail — Leisure retail is used to refer to retail outlets that attract shoppers to spend some of their free time browsing and shopping.
  • letters patent — legal conveyancing documents
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • liberalisation — (British) alternative spelling of liberalization.
  • libertarianism — a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.
  • liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • little russian — former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.
  • lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
  • lords temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
  • louis quatorze — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the late 17th century, characterized by increasingly classicizing tendencies, and by an emphasis on dignity rather than comfort.
  • 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
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
  • macartney rose — a trailing or climbing evergreen rose, Rosa bracteata, of China, having shiny leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
  • macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
  • macrostructure — the gross structure of a metal, as made visible to the naked eye by deep etching.
  • magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
  • magnetic storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
  • magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
  • magnetospheres — Plural form of magnetosphere.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
  • major prophets — theology
  • make no secret — If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
  • make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
  • malefactresses — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • 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.
  • manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
  • maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
  • margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
  • mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
  • market segment — a part of a market identifiable as having particular customers with specific buying characteristics
  • marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
  • 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.
  • mass marketing — the organization of the sale of a product to a large number of people
  • massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
  • master aircrew — a warrant rank in the Royal Air Force, equal to but before a warrant officer
  • master bedroom — a principal bedroom in a house or apartment, usually the largest, typically occupied by the person or persons who head the household.
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • master mariner — a sailor who has achieved a level of competence and experience to be qualified to act as captain of a merchant ship
  • master of arts — a master's degree given usually in a specific branch of the humanities or social sciences.
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