14-letter words containing s, t, o, r, m, c
- dio chrysostom — 2nd century ad, Greek orator and philosopher
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconcertment — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
- discriminators — Plural form of discriminator.
- discriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
- domestic rates — a type of taxation system used to fund local government
- ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- electric storm — a violent atmospheric disturbance in which the air is highly charged with static electricity, causing a storm
- electrochemist — A person who studies or is expert in electrochemistry.
- electromagnets — Plural form of electromagnet.
- electroosmosis — osmosis through a membrane that is caused by the action of an electric field, usually such a field generated by two electrodes, one on each side of the membrane
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
- empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- 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.
- heterochromous — of different colors.
- heterochronism — a change in the stage at which developmental processes take place relative to members of the same species
- histochemistry — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- home secretary — the secretary of state for the Home Office.
- hors de combat — disabled or injured
- humoristically — In a humoristic way.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hysterectomies — Plural form of hysterectomy.
- hysterectomise — Alt form hysterectomize.
- hysterectomize — to remove the uterus from by surgery.
- iatrochemistry — (in the 16th and 17th centuries) the study of chemistry in relation to the physiology, pathology, and treatment of disease.
- improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
- income support — welfare payment to low earners
- incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
- interactionism — a theory that the mind and the body may each affect the other.
- isodiametrical — isodiametric
- isometric-line — isometrics, isometric exercise (def 1).
- lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- macartney rose — a trailing or climbing evergreen rose, Rosa bracteata, of China, having shiny leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
- macrobiologist — One who studies macrobiology.
- macrodactylous — related to or having macrodactyly
- macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
- macrostructure — the gross structure of a metal, as made visible to the naked eye by deep etching.
- magnetic storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.