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14-letter words containing s, t, a, m

  • aromatherapist — An aromatherapist is a person who is qualified to practise aromatherapy.
  • arrondissement — the largest administrative subdivision of a department
  • as a matter of — If you are going to do something as a matter of urgency or priority, you are going to do it as soon as possible, because it is important.
  • assembly plant — An assembly plant is a factory where large items such as cars are put together, usually using parts which have been made in other factories.
  • assembly point — a designated place where people have been told to wait after evacuating a building in the event of a fire or other emergency
  • assimilability — the capacity to be assimilated or made similar
  • associationism — a theory that all mental activity is based on connections between basic mental events, such as sensations and feelings
  • asthenospermia — (medicine) Loss or reduction in the strength or energy of sperm cells, hence infertility. Not always infertile many are subfertile.
  • asthenospermic — (medicine) Characterised by or pertaining to asthenospermia, hence infertile.
  • astigmatometer — an apparatus for measuring the degree of astigmatism.
  • astigmatoscope — an instrument for determining the presence and severity of astigmatism.
  • astigmatoscopy — examination by means of an astigmatoscope.
  • astrochemistry — the study of the chemistry of celestial bodies and space, esp by means of spectroscopy
  • astrocompasses — Plural form of astrocompass.
  • astronomically — of, relating to, or connected with astronomy.
  • asymmetrically — not identical on both sides of a central line; unsymmetrical; lacking symmetry: Most faces are asymmetric.
  • asymptotically — of or relating to an asymptote.
  • at one's mercy — compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.
  • atacama desert — a desert region along the W coast of South America, mainly in N Chile: a major source of nitrates. Area: about 80 000 sq km (31 000 sq miles)
  • atomic physics — the branch of physics concerned with the structure and behaviour of atomic nuclei
  • axiomatisation — the process of reducing down to a system of basic truths, or axioms
  • backstrap loom — a simple horizontal loom, used especially in Central and South America, on which one of two beams holding the warp yarn is attached to a strap that passes across the weaver's back.
  • balsam of tolu — tolu
  • bank statement — A bank statement is a printed document showing all the money paid into and taken out of a bank account. Bank statements are usually sent by a bank to a customer at regular intervals.
  • baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
  • baptismal name — Christian name (def 1).
  • baptismal vows — the solemn promises made during baptism, either by the person baptized or by his or her sponsors
  • barium sulfate — an odorless, tasteless, white powder, BaSO4, insoluble in water: it is used as a paint pigment, as a filler for paper, textiles , etc., and as an opaque substance that is ingested to aid in making diagnostic X-rays of the stomach and intestine
  • base community — (especially in South America) a group of people taking part in religious devotions and Bible study, who seek to apply this in their socioeconomic and political situation.
  • base component — the system of rules in a transformational grammar that specify the deep structure of the language
  • basidiomycetes — Mycology. any of a group of fungi constituting the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or, in older classification schemes, the class Basidiomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), characterized by bearing the spores on a basidium, including the smuts, rust, mushrooms, and puffballs.
  • bayes' theorem — the fundamental result which expresses the conditional probability P(E/A) of an event E given an event A as P(A/E).P(E)/P(A); more generally, where En is one of a set of values Ei which partition the sample space, P(En/A) = P(A/En)P(En)/Σ P(A/Ei)P(Ei). This enables prior estimates of probability to be continually revised in the light of observations
  • beclomethasone — a potent synthetic corticosteroid, C 28 H 37 ClO 7 , prepared as an inhalant in the treatment of bronchial asthma.
  • bermuda shorts — close-fitting shorts that come down to the knees
  • bethlehem sage — a plant, Pulmonaria saccharata, of the borage family, native to Europe, having mottled, white leaves and white or reddish-purple flowers in clusters.
  • bidialectalism — the state of being bidialectal
  • billy no-mates — a person with no friends
  • bioinformatics — the branch of information science concerned with large databases of biochemical or pharmaceutical information
  • biomathematics — the study of the application of mathematics to biology
  • biosystematics — the study of the variation and evolution of a population of organisms in relation to their taxonomic classification
  • biosystematist — someone who studies or works professionally in the field of biosystematics
  • bitmap display — (hardware)   A computer output device where each pixel displayed on the monitor screen corresponds directly to one or more bits in the computer's video memory. Such a display can be updated extremely rapidly since changing a pixel involves only a single processor write to memory compared with a terminal or VDU connected via a serial line where the speed of the serial line limits the speed at which the display can be changed. Most modern personal computers and workstations have bitmap displays, allowing the efficient use of graphical user interfaces, interactive graphics and a choice of on-screen fonts. Some more expensive systems still delegate graphics operations to dedicated hardware such as graphics accelerators. The bitmap display might be traced back to the earliest days of computing when the Manchester University Mark I(?) computer, developed by F.C. Williams and T. Kilburn shortly after the Second World War. This used a storage tube as its working memory. Phosphor dots were used to store single bits of data which could be read by the user and interpreted as binary numbers.
  • blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
  • blow off steam — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
  • blue mountains — a mountain range in the US, in NE Oregon and SE Washington. Highest peak: Rock Creek Butte, 2773 m (9097 ft)
  • breakfast room — a room set aside for serving and eating breakfast, esp in a hotel or guesthouse
  • breakfast time — Breakfast time is the period of the morning when most people have their breakfast.
  • breast implant — an object such as a sachet filled with gel introduced surgically into a woman's breast to enlarge it
  • bremsstrahlung — the radiation produced when an electrically charged particle, esp an electron, is slowed down by the electric field of an atomic nucleus or an atomic ion
  • bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
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