14-letter words containing s, i, r, p
- lepidopterists — Plural form of lepidopterist.
- lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- life preserver — a buoyant jacket, belt, or other like device for keeping a person afloat.
- life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
- lipari islands — a group of volcanic islands under Italian administration off the N coast of Sicily: remains that form a continuous record from Neolithic times. Chief town: Lipari. Pop: 10 554 (2001). Area: 114 sq km (44 sq miles)
- lipogrammatism — the practice or art of writing lipograms
- lipogrammatist — a person who writes lipograms
- 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.
- lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
- lord spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.
- lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
- lupus vulgaris — a rare form of tuberculosis of the skin, characterized by brownish tubercles that often heal slowly and leave scars.
- lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
- macrosporangia — Plural form of macrosporangium.
- 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.
- make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- marsupial mole — a burrowing Australian marsupial of the genus Notoryctes, resembling a common mole in form and behavior.
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- mastigophorous — carrying a cane or whip
- mauritius hemp — a tropical American plant, Furcraea foetida, having large, fleshy leaves, cultivated as a source of a hemplike fiber.
- meadow parsnip — any North American plant belonging to the genus Thaspium, of the parsley family, having yellow or purple flowers.
- megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
- metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metamorphosise — (UK, nonstandard) To metamorphose.
- metamorphosize — (US, nonstandard) To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
- 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.
- metrical psalm — a translation of one of the psalms into rhyming strict-metre verse usually sung as a hymn
- microcephalous — Microcephalic.
- microcomputers — Plural form of microcomputer.
- microparasites — Plural form of microparasite.
- microparasitic — Of or pertaining to microparasites.
- microphysicist — a physicist who specializes in microphysics
- microprocessor — an integrated computer circuit that performs all the functions of a CPU.
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
- microspherical — relating to or designating a microsphere
- microsporangia — Plural form of microsporangium.
- microsporidian — Any of many parasites, of the class Microsporidia, that are very small fungi.
- microsporocyte — one of the mother cells that produce four microspores by meiosis.
- middle persian — the Persian language at a stage that begins c300 b.c. and includes Pahlavi (attested from the 3rd to the 7th centuries a.d.) as well as the West Iranian literatures (3rd–10th centuries a.d.) of religions carried outside Persia. Abbreviation: MPers.
- mineral spring — a spring of water that contains a significant amount of dissolved minerals.
- minor prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- misanthropists — Plural form of misanthropist.
- misapprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of misapprehend.