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14-letter words containing s, i, a, m

  • e-mail address — electronic mail address
  • eastern empire — the eastern part of the Roman Empire, especially after the division in a.d. 395, having its capital at Constantinople: survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire in a.d. 476.
  • eco-capitalism — the theory or practice of a free-market economy in which natural resources are regarded as capital and profits are partially dependent on environmental protection and sustainability
  • economicalness — The quality of being economical.
  • ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • egalitarianism — belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, social, or economic life.
  • elementariness — The state or condition of being elementary.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
  • emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • encompassingly — So as to encompass.
  • encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
  • endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
  • entertainments — Plural form of entertainment.
  • ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
  • establishments — Plural form of establishment.
  • estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
  • evangelicalism — (Christianity, historical) Lutheranism.
  • exceptionalism — The state of being special, exceptional or unique.
  • excommunicates — Plural form of excommunicate.
  • existentialism — A philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.
  • exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
  • exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
  • fabius maximus — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
  • face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
  • fairmindedness — Alt form fair-mindedness.
  • fairy primrose — a tender primrose, Primula malacoides, of China, having hairy leaves and small, pink or lilac-colored flowers.
  • fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
  • family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
  • fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
  • fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
  • fashionmonging — the act of analysing, following or advising others on fashion
  • fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
  • ferrimagnetism — (physics) a form of antiferromagnetism in which some magnetization remains below a critical temperature (the Neel temperature).
  • ferromagnesian — (of minerals and rocks) containing iron and magnesium.
  • ferromagnetism — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • 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)
  • first classman — a fourth-year student at a U.S. military academy.
  • first mortgage — a mortgage having priority over other mortgages on property.
  • flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
  • florists' foam — a rigid, deformable, spongelike plastic used in floral arrangements to secure the stems of flowers.
  • fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • foraminiferans — Plural form of foraminiferan.
  • foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
  • forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • formosa strait — an arm of the Pacific Ocean between China and Taiwan, connecting the East and South China Seas.
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