14-letter words containing s, a, i, e, t
- licentiateship — a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.
- lieutenantship — the office of a lieutenant
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- like this/that — You use like this or like that when you are drawing attention to something that you are doing or that someone else is doing.
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- little russian — former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.
- 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.
- love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
- lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- machine stitch — a stitch created by a sewing machine
- machine-stitch — to sew on a sewing machine.
- 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.
- magnetostatics — the branch of magnetics that deals with magnetic fields that do not vary with time (magnetostatic fields)
- magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
- maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
- majesticalness — the glory or majesty of someone or something
- make it snappy — apt to snap or bite; snappish, as a dog.
- make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
- manifestations — An event, action, or object that clearly shows or embodies something, esp. a theory or an abstract idea.
- manual testing — (testing) That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
- 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.
- 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?
- mathematicians — Plural form of mathematician.
- 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.
- 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.
- mediastinotomy — (surgery) incision of the mediastinum.
- medical ethics — the code of behaviour considered to be correct for members of the medical profession
- medicalisation — Alternative spelling of medicalization.
- meditativeness — The quality of being meditative.
- memorabilities — Plural form of memorability.