14-letter words containing s, r, a, m
- 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.
- mie scattering — the scattering of light by particles that are large relative to the wavelength of the light.
- militarisation — The process by which something such as an area of land or a function of government becomes dependent on or subordinate to the military, or military in its attributes or practices.
- military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
- millenarianism — a belief in the millennium.
- miner's anemia — hookworm (def 2).
- mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
- mineral spring — a spring of water that contains a significant amount of dissolved minerals.
- mineralisation — Alternative spelling of mineralization.
- ministerialist — A supporter of the ministers, or the party in power.
- minor seminary — a Roman Catholic preparatory school where persons planning to enter the priesthood follow a course of secondary education.
- miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- mis-coordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- misanthropists — Plural form of misanthropist.
- misapprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of misapprehend.
- misappropriate — to put to a wrong use.
- misarrangement — incorrect or poor arrangement
- misattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- miscellanarian — a person who writes miscellanies
- mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
- miscorrelation — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
- misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- misinformation — to give false or misleading information to.
- misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
- mismeasurement — an inaccurate or incorrect measurement
- misorientation — a bad or incorrect orientation
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- misremembrance — An incorrect remembrance; something remembered wrongly.
- mister charlie — a term used to refer to a white person.
- mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- mistranslating — Present participle of mistranslate.
- mistranslation — An incorrect translation.
- misunderstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misunderstand.
- mithridates vi — ("the Great") 132?–63 b.c, king of Pontus 120–63.
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- moderate-sized — not large or small
- modern persian — the Persian language since the Middle Persian stage.
- modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
- moisturization — The act or process of moisturizing.
- molly maguires — a secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- monochromatism — the quality of having one color: the monochromatism of Picasso's Blue Period.
- monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
- monotransitive — In grammar, pertaining to a transitive verb that takes a single mandatory object, either a direct object or a primary object depending on the language.
- monounsaturate — a monounsaturated fat or fatty acid, as olive oil.
- mont-de-marsan — a department in SW France. 3615 sq. mi. (9365 sq. km). Capital: Mont-de-Marsan.