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14-letter words containing t, o, l, m

  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • ellesmere port — a port in NW England, in NW Cheshire on the Mersey estuary and Manchester Ship Canal. Pop: 66 265 (2001)
  • employment law — rules governing working practices
  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • ephemeral port — (networking)   A TCP or UDP port number that is automatically allocated from a predefined range by the TCP/IP stack software, typically to provide the port for the client end of a client-server communication.
  • 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
  • estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
  • ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
  • etymologically — (domain) Based on or belonging to etymology.
  • exceptionalism — The state of being special, exceptional or unique.
  • exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
  • fall victim to — If you fall victim to something or someone, you suffer as a result of them, or you are killed by them.
  • family compact — any influential clique
  • family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
  • fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
  • female-to-male — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity and gender expression is male.
  • femoral artery — the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.
  • figwort family — the plant family Scrophulariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having alternate or opposite leaves, often showy two-lipped or irregular flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the figwort, foxglove, Indian paintbrush, mullein, speedwell, and snapdragon.
  • film projector — an optical instrument in which a strip of film is wound past a lens at a fixed speed so that the frames can be viewed as a continuously moving sequence on a screen or wall
  • flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
  • florists' foam — a rigid, deformable, spongelike plastic used in floral arrangements to secure the stems of flowers.
  • flotsam-jetsam — the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan.
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • folk etymology — a modification of a linguistic form according either to a falsely assumed etymology, as Welsh rarebit from Welsh rabbit, or to a historically irrelevant analogy, as bridegroom from bridegome.
  • foot patrolman — a policeman assigned to patrol a particular area on foot
  • football match — a match played between two football teams
  • footplatewoman — a female footplate worker
  • forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
  • formal methods — (mathematics, specification)   Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
  • foxtail millet — a grass, Setaria italica, of numerous varieties, introduced into the U.S. from Europe and Asia, and grown chiefly for use as hay.
  • frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
  • from the floor — during the time of a game when active defense is permitted
  • frontotemporal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the frontal and temporal bones or lobes.
  • galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
  • ganglionectomy — the excision of a ganglion.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
  • gold medallist — the winner of competition or race, who is awarded a gold medal
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • good-time girl — a young woman whose chief concern is seeking pleasure and having fun
  • governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • 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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