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14-letter words containing r, e, n, t, a, m

  • fireman's lift — a method of carrying a person, in which you put one shoulder into the person's midriff, lift them and carry them with their head arms and upper torso hanging down your back while you grip their legs with one hand (leaving your other hand free to hold the ladder as you climb down)
  • fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
  • fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
  • fragmentedness — The quality of being fragmented.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • frontotemporal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the frontal and temporal bones or lobes.
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • gamma-carotene — one of the forms of the pigment carotene
  • genetic marker — any distinct inheritable indicator of identity and ancestry.
  • geometric mean — the mean of n positive numbers obtained by taking the n th root of the product of the numbers: The geometric mean of 6 and 24 is 12.
  • geometrization — the application of geometrical concepts to a different field
  • germanomethane — (chemistry) germanium tetrahydride.
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
  • globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • government man — (in the 19th century) a convict
  • governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • great renaming — (history)   The flag day in 1986 on which all of the non-local groups on the Usenet had their names changed from the net.- format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme. Used especially in discussing the history of newsgroup names. "The oldest sources group is comp.sources.misc; before the Great Renaming, it was net.sources."
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • hammerstein ii — Oscar. 1895–1960, US librettist and songwriter: collaborated with the composer Richard Rodgers in musicals such as South Pacific (1949) and The Sound of Music (1959)
  • harriet tubman — Harriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
  • heteroromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the opposite gender.
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • housing market — property trade
  • human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hyperemotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
  • hypernatraemia — a heightened concentration of sodium in the blood
  • image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
  • immaterialness — The state of being immaterial; immateriality.
  • immelmann turn — a maneuver in which an airplane makes a half loop, then resumes its normal, level position by making a half roll: used to gain altitude while turning to fly in the opposite direction.
  • immiserisation — the process of immiserising
  • immiserization — the process of immiserizing
  • immoderateness — The quality of being immoderate, lack of moderation or temperance.
  • immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
  • immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
  • impact printer — (printer)   The earlier, noisier kind of printer where part of the mechanism comes into contact with the paper. The term would only be only used in contrast to "non-impact printer". Examples include line printer, daisy wheel printer, golf ball printer, dot matrix printer, Braille printer.
  • imperativeness — absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave.
  • impersonations — Plural form of impersonation.
  • imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
  • impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
  • income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
  • incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
  • incrementalism — a policy of making changes, especially social changes, by degrees; gradualism.
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