14-letter words containing s, r, a, m
- morale booster — You can refer to something that makes people feel more confident and cheerful as a morale booster.
- moralistically — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
- morris dancing — Morris dancing is a type of old English country dancing which is performed by people wearing special costumes.
- morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
- mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
- motor-assisted — mechanically assisted by a motor
- mpeg-4 aac ssr — MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding Scalable Sampling Rate
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
- multiracialism — The promotion of a diverse society composed of various races with different cultural backgrounds.
- multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- musical chairs — Also called going to Jerusalem. a game in which players march to music around two rows of chairs placed back to back, there being one chair less than the number of players, the object being to find a seat when the music stops abruptly. The player failing to do so is removed from the game, together with one chair, at each interval.
- mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
- mustard powder — Mustard powder is a yellow powder. You add hot water to it in order to make mustard.
- muster station — the place on a ship where passengers should assemble in the event of an emergency
- mutton snapper — a snapper, Lutjanus analis, inhabiting the warmer parts of the western Atlantic Ocean, valued as food and game.
- mutual insurer — A mutual insurer is an insurance company which is owned by its members or policyholders rather than by shareholders.
- myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
- myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
- narcoterrorism — terrorist tactics employed by dealers in illicit drugs, as against competitors or government agents.
- necessarianism — (philosophy, metaphysics, theology) An extreme form of determinism that holds that all phenomena, including the will, are subject to immutable rules of cause and effect; necessitarianism.
- negri sembilan — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 2580 sq. mi. (6682 sq. km). Capital: Seremban.
- neil armstrong — (Daniel) Louis ("Satchmo") 1900–71, U.S. jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
- nematodiriasis — the condition, esp in sheep, of having parasitic nematode worms of the genus Nematodirus in the small intestine
- neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
- neo-surrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
- neoromanticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) Fine Arts. a style of painting developed in the 20th century, chiefly characterized by forms or images that project a sense of nostalgia and fantasy.
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- neuroanatomist — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
- neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
- neutral monism — the theory that mind and matter consist of different relations between entities that are themselves neither mental nor physical.
- new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
- new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
- newspaperwoman — a woman employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
- newspaperwomen — Plural form of newspaperwoman.
- no easy matter — If something is no easy matter, it is difficult to do it.
- non-harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- non-liberalism — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- non-naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.
- noncharismatic — a person or group not involved in the Christian charismatic movement
- nonchromosomal — any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order: the human species has 23 pairs, designated 1 to 22 in order of decreasing size and X and Y for the female and male sex chromosomes respectively.
- nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
- nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
- normal divisor — a normal subgroup.
- norman dynasty — a succession of English kings founded by Duke William of the duchy of Normandy in northern France, who conquered England in 1066 and whose successors ruled the country to 1154.
- norman english — the dialect of English used by the Norman conquerors of England
- nuclear isomer — isomer (def 2).