14-letter words containing t, r, e, n, s
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- little russian — former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
- low-resolution — of or relating to CRTs, printers, or other visual output devices that produce images that are not sharply defined (opposed to high-resolution).
- lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- macartney rose — a trailing or climbing evergreen rose, Rosa bracteata, of China, having shiny leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
- macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
- magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
- magnetic storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
- magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
- magnetospheres — Plural form of magnetosphere.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
- make no secret — If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- man of letters — highly educated man
- managed forest — a sustainable forest in which usually at least one tree is planted for every tree felled
- mandelbrot set — (mathematics, graphics) (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that | z[N] | < 2 for arbitrarily large values of N, where z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black. The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
- manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
- maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
- market segment — a part of a market identifiable as having particular customers with specific buying characteristics
- marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
- masonry cement — a mix typically of Portland cement, hydrated lime, and other materials, used to improve the water retention and workability of the cement in masonry work.
- mass marketing — the organization of the sale of a product to a large number of people
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- master mariner — a sailor who has achieved a level of competence and experience to be qualified to act as captain of a merchant ship
- master workman — a worker in charge.
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- matjes herring — young herring that have not spawned, often prepared with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.
- mature student — sb enrolled in study after usual age
- menage a trois — a domestic arrangement in which three people having sexual relations occupy the same household.
- mercantilistic — Relating to, or characteristic of mercantilism.
- merionethshire — a historic county in Gwynedd, in N Wales.
- merritt island — a town in E Florida.
- message center — an office or other area where incoming and outgoing messages, mail, etc., are received and transmitted, as by telephone, computer, or messenger.
- metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
- metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metanarratives — Plural form of metanarrative.
- methane series — alkane series.
- metric madness — excessive devotion to metrication
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- micromagnetism — (physics) The study of magnetism at the sub-micrometre scale.
- micronutrients — Plural form of micronutrient.
- 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.
- middle western — of or relating to the Middle West.
- mie scattering — the scattering of light by particles that are large relative to the wavelength of the light.
- mind the store — to tend to business
- mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land