14-letter words containing r, e, i, s
- locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
- logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- 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.
- lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
- lorraine cross — cross of Lorraine.
- 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.
- 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 sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- lower silurian — Ordovician
- lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
- lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
- luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
- macroeconomics — the branch of economics dealing with the broad and general aspects of an economy, as the relationship between the income and investments of a country as a whole.
- macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
- 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.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
- major seminary — a Roman Catholic theological college devoted to training for the priesthood and usually offering a six-year program emphasizing philosophy and theology.
- make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- manic disorder — a type of affective disorder characterized by euphoric mood, excessive activity and talkativeness, impaired judgment, and sometimes psychotic symptoms, as grandiose delusions.
- 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.
- marine science — the branch of science concerned with the sea
- mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
- marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
- marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- marsupial mole — a burrowing Australian marsupial of the genus Notoryctes, resembling a common mole in form and behavior.
- 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 builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- master mariner — a sailor who has achieved a level of competence and experience to be qualified to act as captain of a merchant ship
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- material cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- matjes herring — young herring that have not spawned, often prepared with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.
- mauritius hemp — a tropical American plant, Furcraea foetida, having large, fleshy leaves, cultivated as a source of a hemplike fiber.
- maxis software — The developers of SimCity and SimCity 2000. Address: 2 Theatre Square, Suite 230, Orinda, CA 94563-3346, USA. Telephone: +1 (800) 33-MAXIS.
- mazar-e-sharif — a city in N Afghanistan, reputed burial place of the caliph Ali; trading, agricultural, and military centre. Pop: 254 000 (2005 est)
- mcclure strait — an arm of the Beaufort Sea between Banks Island in the south and Melville Island and Eglinton Island to the north, in the Northwest Territories, Canada. About 170 miles (270 km) long and 60 miles (90 km) wide.
- meadow parsnip — any North American plant belonging to the genus Thaspium, of the parsley family, having yellow or purple flowers.
- measuring worm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
- megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- melamine resin — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the interaction of melamine and formaldehyde: used chiefly as adhesives for laminated materials and as coatings for paper, plastics, and textiles.