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14-letter words containing s, e, m, l

  • libertarianism — a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.
  • 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.
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • likemindedness — Alternative spelling of like-mindedness.
  • limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
  • linear measure — any system for measuring length.
  • liquid measure — the system of units of capacity ordinarily used in measuring liquid commodities, as milk or oil. English system: 4 gills = 1 pint; 2 pints = 1 quart; 4 quarts = 1 gallon. Metric system: 1000 milliliters = 1 liter; 1000 liters = 1 kiloliter (= 1 cubic meter).
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • lleras camargo — Alberto [ahl-ver-taw] /ɑlˈvɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1906–89, Colombian journalist, writer, and political leader: president 1945–46, 1958–62.
  • locker-lampson — Frederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
  • lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
  • longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • lords temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
  • love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
  • lumbersomeness — the state of being lumbersome
  • 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.
  • lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
  • lyre-form sofa — a sofa of the early 19th century having a front rail curving upward and outward at either end to form arms and terminating in a downward scroll.
  • lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
  • machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
  • mackerel shark — any of several fierce sharks of the family Lamidae, including the great white shark and the mako.
  • macrocephalous — Having a large head.
  • macromolecules — Plural form of macromolecule.
  • magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
  • magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
  • magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
  • majesticalness — the glory or majesty of someone or something
  • maladjustments — Plural form of maladjustment.
  • male menopause — a malaise that allegedly affects men in middle age and is said to be responsible for periods of emotional upset and uncharacteristic behavior.
  • malefactresses — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • malodorousness — The state or condition of being malodorous.
  • malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
  • man of letters — highly educated man
  • manageableness — The state of being manageable; tractableness; docility.
  • 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.
  • mannerlessness — The state or condition of being mannerless.
  • 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.
  • marcus regulus — Marcus Atilius [uh-til-ee-uh s] /əˈtɪl i əs/ (Show IPA), died 250? b.c, Roman general.
  • mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
  • marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
  • marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
  • marrons glaces — chestnuts cooked in syrup and glazed
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • marsupial mole — a burrowing Australian marsupial of the genus Notoryctes, resembling a common mole in form and behavior.
  • marvellousness — The quality or state of being marvellous.
  • mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
  • massage parlor — a commercial establishment providing massages.
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