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14-letter words containing s, t, e, d

  • laetare sunday — the fourth Sunday of Lent when the introit begins with “ Laetare Jerusalem ” (Rejoice ye, Jerusalem).
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
  • lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
  • lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
  • lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
  • lend-lease act — the matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress (Lend-Lease Act) passed in 1941: such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war.
  • lepidopterists — Plural form of lepidopterist.
  • leptodactylous — having slender toes or fingers.
  • leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
  • liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
  • life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • llano estacado — a large plateau in the SW United States, in W Texas and SE New Mexico: cattle-grazing region. About 1000–5000 feet (300–1500 meters) above sea level.
  • lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
  • lords temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
  • lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
  • lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
  • maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
  • make ends meet — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
  • maladjustments — Plural form of maladjustment.
  • man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
  • managed forest — a sustainable forest in which usually at least one tree is planted for every tree felled
  • mandelbrot set — (mathematics, graphics)   (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that | z[N] | < 2 for arbitrarily large values of N, where z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black. The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
  • master bedroom — a principal bedroom in a house or apartment, usually the largest, typically occupied by the person or persons who head the household.
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • matched sample — a sample in which the individuals selected for analysis share all properties except that under investigation
  • mater dolorosa — the sorrowful mother.
  • mature student — sb enrolled in study after usual age
  • mediastinotomy — (surgery) incision of the mediastinum.
  • medical ethics — the code of behaviour considered to be correct for members of the medical profession
  • medicalisation — Alternative spelling of medicalization.
  • medicine chest — bathroom cabinet
  • meditativeness — The quality of being meditative.
  • mental disease — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
  • merritt island — a town in E Florida.
  • method actress — an actress who bases her role on the inner motivation of the character she plays, following the theories of Stanislavsky
  • methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
  • methodologists — Plural form of methodologist.
  • metric madness — excessive devotion to metrication
  • middle eastern — Also called Mideast. (loosely) the area from Libya E to Afghanistan, usually including Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the other countries of the Arabian peninsula.
  • middle western — of or relating to the Middle West.
  • midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
  • mind the store — to tend to business
  • mis-coordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • misconstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstruct.
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