14-letter words containing t, r, a, i, l, s
- lipogrammatist — a person who writes lipograms
- liquid crystal — a liquid having certain crystalline characteristics, especially different optical properties in different directions when exposed to an electric field.
- little russian — former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.
- lord spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.
- louis quatorze — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the late 17th century, characterized by increasingly classicizing tendencies, and by an emphasis on dignity rather than comfort.
- lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- macrobiologist — One who studies macrobiology.
- magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
- mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
- marital status — whether or not one is married
- martial artist — a person who practises a martial art
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- material cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- mcclure strait — an arm of the Beaufort Sea between Banks Island in the south and Melville Island and Eglinton Island to the north, in the Northwest Territories, Canada. About 170 miles (270 km) long and 60 miles (90 km) wide.
- memorabilities — Plural form of memorability.
- mercantilistic — Relating to, or characteristic of mercantilism.
- merritt island — a town in E Florida.
- metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
- metrical psalm — a translation of one of the psalms into rhyming strict-metre verse usually sung as a hymn
- metrosexuality — The quality of being metrosexual.
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
- microsatellite — A miniature satellite.
- microsoft mail — (messaging, tool) (MS Mail) A Microsoft Windows electronic mail program.
- 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.
- militarisation — The process by which something such as an area of land or a function of government becomes dependent on or subordinate to the military, or military in its attributes or practices.
- military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
- mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
- mineralisation — Alternative spelling of mineralization.
- ministerialist — A supporter of the ministers, or the party in power.
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- miscorrelation — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
- misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
- mister charlie — a term used to refer to a white person.
- mistranslating — Present participle of mistranslate.
- mistranslation — An incorrect translation.
- moralistically — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
- multiracialism — The promotion of a diverse society composed of various races with different cultural backgrounds.
- multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
- mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
- mutual insurer — A mutual insurer is an insurance company which is owned by its members or policyholders rather than by shareholders.
- myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
- narcissistical — Of, pertaining to or involved in narcissism or narcissistic behaviour; narcissistic.