14-letter words containing s, c, r, i, e
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
- licorice stick — a clarinet.
- life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
- limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
- liquor license — a licence that allows the proprietor of a store, bar, etc, to sell alcohol
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- 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.
- lorraine cross — cross of Lorraine.
- 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.
- 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.
- manic disorder — a type of affective disorder characterized by euphoric mood, excessive activity and talkativeness, impaired judgment, and sometimes psychotic symptoms, as grandiose delusions.
- margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
- marine science — the branch of science concerned with the sea
- marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
- 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
- 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?
- 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.
- mensural music — polyphonic music of the 13th century in which each note has a strictly determined value.
- mercalli scale — a measure of earthquake intensity with 12 divisions ranging from I (felt by very few) to XII (total destruction).
- mercantilistic — Relating to, or characteristic of mercantilism.
- merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
- mercury switch — an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.
- meretriciously — In a meretricious manner.
- metachromatism — change of color, especially that due to variation in the temperature of a body.
- metaphosphoric — applied to an acid (HPO3) containing a molecule less of water than orthophosphoric acid
- metapragmatics — Language that characterizes or describes the pragmatic function of some speech.
- metric madness — excessive devotion to metrication
- metrical psalm — a translation of one of the psalms into rhyming strict-metre verse usually sung as a hymn
- microaneurysms — Plural form of microaneurysm.
- microbreweries — Plural form of microbrewery.
- microcassettes — Plural form of microcassette.
- microcephalous — Microcephalic.
- microchemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with minute quantities of substances.
- microcomputers — Plural form of microcomputer.
- microeconomics — the branch of economics dealing with particular aspects of an economy, as the price-cost relationship of a firm.
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- microinsurance — (insurance) A type of microfinancial service aimed at low-income people and communities, and typified by low premiums and coverage limits.
- micromagnetism — (physics) The study of magnetism at the sub-micrometre scale.
- micronutrients — Plural form of micronutrient.
- microparasites — Plural form of microparasite.
- microprocessor — an integrated computer circuit that performs all the functions of a CPU.