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

  • epidemiologist — A scientist (often a medical doctor) who specializes in epidemiology.
  • epistemologies — Plural form of epistemology.
  • epistemologist — A person, especially a philosopher, who studies theory of knowledge.
  • ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
  • establishments — Plural form of establishment.
  • estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
  • exceptionalism — The state of being special, exceptional or unique.
  • excommunicates — Plural form of excommunicate.
  • existentialism — A philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.
  • exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
  • extinguishment — The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
  • face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
  • fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
  • family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
  • fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
  • femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
  • fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
  • fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
  • ferrimagnetism — (physics) a form of antiferromagnetism in which some magnetization remains below a critical temperature (the Neel temperature).
  • ferromagnetism — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • fireman's lift — a method of carrying a person, in which you put one shoulder into the person's midriff, lift them and carry them with their head arms and upper torso hanging down your back while you grip their legs with one hand (leaving your other hand free to hold the ladder as you climb down)
  • first classman — a fourth-year student at a U.S. military academy.
  • first minister — In the Scottish Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly, the First Minister is the leader of the ruling party.
  • first mortgage — a mortgage having priority over other mortgages on property.
  • fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
  • flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
  • florists' foam — a rigid, deformable, spongelike plastic used in floral arrangements to secure the stems of flowers.
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
  • form criticism — a method of textual analysis, applied especially to the Bible, in which the origin and history of certain passages are traced by isolating their literary forms, as miracle story, saying, or apothegm, on the assumption that they were fixed by oral tradition prior to compilation in written form.
  • formosa strait — an arm of the Pacific Ocean between China and Taiwan, connecting the East and South China Seas.
  • fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
  • fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
  • from the first — From the first means ever since something started.
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
  • fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
  • galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
  • gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
  • games mistress — a woman who teaches games and sports in a school
  • garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • gingivectomies — Plural form of gingivectomy.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • gluteus medius — the muscle of the buttocks lying between the gluteus maximus and the gluteus minimus, involved in the abduction of the thigh.
  • gold medallist — the winner of competition or race, who is awarded a gold medal
  • good samaritan — a person who gratuitously gives help or sympathy to those in distress. Luke 10:30–37.
  • grammaticaster — (derogatory) A pedantic, inferior grammarian.
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
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