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14-letter words containing t, h, e, s, l

  • mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
  • mister charlie — a term used to refer to a white person.
  • mont-st-michel — islet just off the NW coast of France, noted for its fortified abbey
  • morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
  • mortise chisel — framing chisel.
  • mos technology — (company)   A microprocessor design company started by some ex-Motorola designers, shortly after the Intel 8080 and Motorola 6800 appeared, in about 1975. MOS Technology introduced the 650x series, based on the Motorola 6800 design, though they were not exact clones for legal reasons. The design goal was a low-cost (smaler chip) design, realized by simplifying the decoder stage. There were no instructions with the value xxxxxx11, reducing the 1-of-4 decoder to a single NAND gate. Instructions with the value xxxxxx11 actually executed two instructions in paralell, some of them useful. The 6501 was pin-compatible with the 6800 for easier market penetration. The 650x-series had an on-chip clock oscillator while the 651x-series had none. The 6510 was used in the Commodore 64, released September 1981 and MOS made almost all the ICs for Commodore's pocket calculators. The PET was an idea of the of the 6500 developers. It was completly developed by MOS, but was manufactured and marketed by Commodore. By the time the it was ready for production (and Commodore had cancelled all orders) MOS had been taken over by Rockwell (Commodore's parent company). Just at this time the 6522 (VIA) was finished, but the data sheet for it was not and its developers had left MOS. For years, Rockwell didn't know in detail how the VIA worked.
  • motherlessness — The state or condition of being motherless.
  • neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
  • nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
  • nonestablished — without the official support of the government
  • north-easterly — A north-easterly point, area, or direction is to the north-east or towards the north-east.
  • north-westerly — A north-westerly point, area, or direction is to the north-west or towards the north-west.
  • northern isles — Orkney and Shetland
  • not merely sth — You use not merely before the less important of two contrasting statements, as a way of emphasizing the more important statement.
  • oil the wheels — to make things run smoothly
  • old school tie — a necktie striped in the colors of a specific English public school, especially as worn by a graduate to indicate his educational background.
  • oligosynthetic — (linguistics) (of a language) using a relatively small number of morphemes which combine synthetically to form compound words.
  • omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
  • ophthalmoscope — an instrument for viewing the interior of the eye or examining the retina.
  • opisthocoelous — relating to vertebrae in which the centrum is convex and the posterior is concave
  • orthodox sleep — dreamless sleep, characterized by a slow alpha rhythm of brain waves and no marked physiological changes.
  • orthoselection — orthogenesis (def 1a).
  • outlandishness — The quality of being outlandish.
  • overshot wheel — a water wheel in which the water enters the buckets tangentially near the top of the wheel.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • paschal letter — (in the early Christian church) a letter, written by a patriarch, archbishop, or bishop to a cleric under his authority, announcing the date of the next Easter festival.
  • patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
  • petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
  • philosophaster — a person who has only a superficial knowledge of philosophy or who feigns a knowledge he or she does not possess.
  • photogeologist — a person who studies or has a profession in photogeology
  • photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
  • photorealistic — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • phyllosilicate — any silicate mineral having the tetrahedral silicate groups linked in sheets, each group containing four oxygen atoms, three of which are shared with other groups so that the ratio of silicon atoms to oxygen atoms is two to five.
  • pink elephants — a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • platycephalous — flat-headed
  • plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
  • plotting sheet — a blank chart having only a compass rose and latitude lines, longitude lines, or both, marked and annotated, as required, by a navigator.
  • polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
  • polysynthesism — the synthesis of various elements.
  • potter's wheel — a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
  • preestablished — to establish beforehand.
  • private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
  • prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
  • pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
  • pteridophilist — a person who shows an excessive enthusiam for ferns
  • pyelonephritis — inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by a bacterial infection.
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