14-letter words containing s, m, i, e
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- legitimateness — The quality of being legitimate.
- legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
- leiomyosarcoma — (pathology) A cancerous tumor of smooth muscle.
- lemongrass oil — an aromatic oil made from lemon grass and used in aromatherapy, as a pesticide, and as a preservative
- les miserables — a novel (1862) by Victor Hugo.
- letter missive — a letter from an official source expressing a command, permission, invitation, etc.
- 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.
- love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
- 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.
- lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
- machine finish — a very smooth paper surface, created by a machine.
- 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.
- 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.
- madison avenue — a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.
- 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.
- 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)
- magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
- maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
- majesticalness — the glory or majesty of someone or something
- major seminary — a Roman Catholic theological college devoted to training for the priesthood and usually offering a six-year program emphasizing philosophy and theology.
- make it snappy — apt to snap or bite; snappish, as a dog.
- make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
- manic disorder — a type of affective disorder characterized by euphoric mood, excessive activity and talkativeness, impaired judgment, and sometimes psychotic symptoms, as grandiose delusions.
- manifestations — An event, action, or object that clearly shows or embodies something, esp. a theory or an abstract idea.
- 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.
- margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
- marine science — the branch of science concerned with the sea
- mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
- marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
- marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage