14-letter words containing s, a, n, t
- low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
- 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
- luminous paint — paint containing a phosphor that emits visible light when irradiated with ultraviolet light.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- lunatic asylum — psychiatric hospital
- lyophilisation — Alternative spelling of lyophilization.
- lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
- m'naghten test — a rule that defines a person as legally insane when that person cannot distinguish right from wrong.
- macartney rose — a trailing or climbing evergreen rose, Rosa bracteata, of China, having shiny leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
- machicolations — Plural form of machicolation.
- 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.
- macintosh iicx — (computer) (Mac IIcx) A version of Apple's Macintosh II personal computer, introduced in 1989, with a Motorola 68030 processor running at 16 MHz and up to 128 MB of RAM (120 ns, 30-pin DRAM chips). The IIcx requires System 6.0.3 or later and requires "Mode 32" or "32-bit Enabler" to use more than 8MB of RAM. It was discontinued 1991, and in 1996 is still considered one of the best-designed Macs ever.
- 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.
- magnetospheres — Plural form of magnetosphere.
- 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)
- magnifications — Plural form of magnification.
- magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
- maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
- majesticalness — the glory or majesty of someone or something
- make ends meet — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
- make it snappy — apt to snap or bite; snappish, as a dog.
- make no secret — If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
- make the scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
- malacostracans — Plural form of malacostracan.
- maladjustments — Plural form of maladjustment.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
- 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.
- manifestations — An event, action, or object that clearly shows or embodies something, esp. a theory or an abstract idea.
- manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
- 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.
- mariano arista — Mariano [mah-ryah-naw] /mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1802–55, Mexican general: president of Mexico 1851–53.
- 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 mariner — a sailor who has achieved a level of competence and experience to be qualified to act as captain of a merchant ship
- master workman — a worker in charge.
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- mastocarcinoma — carcinoma of the breast.