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

  • liquid compass — wet compass.
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • local politics — political activity at local level, as opposed to national politics
  • lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
  • lord spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.
  • louis napoleon — (Louis Napoleon; Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte) [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1808–73, president of France 1848–52, emperor of France 1852–70 (nephew of Napoleon I).
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • luminous paint — paint containing a phosphor that emits visible light when irradiated with ultraviolet light.
  • lupus vulgaris — a rare form of tuberculosis of the skin, characterized by brownish tubercles that often heal slowly and leave scars.
  • lyophilisation — Alternative spelling of lyophilization.
  • machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
  • 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 it snappy — apt to snap or bite; snappish, as a dog.
  • make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
  • malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
  • 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.
  • megascopically — macroscopically
  • megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • mesaticephalic — (anatomy) Having a cranium with a medium ratio of length to breadth.
  • 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
  • metaphysically — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • metaphysicians — Plural form of metaphysician.
  • metaplasticity — Any activity-dependent change to neural function that modulates subsequent synaptic plasticity.
  • metapragmatics — Language that characterizes or describes the pragmatic function of some speech.
  • metoposcopical — relating to metoposcopy
  • metrical psalm — a translation of one of the psalms into rhyming strict-metre verse usually sung as a hymn
  • microcephalous — Microcephalic.
  • microparasites — Plural form of microparasite.
  • microparasitic — Of or pertaining to microparasites.
  • 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.
  • middle passage — the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships.
  • 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.
  • misacceptation — misinterpretation
  • misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
  • misanthropists — Plural form of misanthropist.
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