14-letter words containing am
- molecular beam — a stream of molecules freed from a substance, usually a salt, by evaporation and then passed through a narrow slit for focusing, for investigating the properties of nuclei, atoms, and molecules.
- mottled enamel — fluorosis (def 2).
- muhammad ahmed — ("the Mahdi") 1844–85, Muslim leader in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
- muhammad ghori — Mohammed of Ghor.
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- multiparameter — Having, or employing multiple parameters.
- 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.
- nagami kumquat — oval kumquat.
- name and shame — If something such as a newspaper or an official body names and shames people who have performed badly or who have done something wrong, it identifies those people by name.
- neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
- nfld & lab — Newfoundland and Labrador
- noctambulation — Sleepwalking.
- non-ambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
- non-monogamous — practicing or advocating monogamy.
- non-ornamental — used or grown for ornament: ornamental plants.
- nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- nongrammatical — (of a sentence or expression) not conforming to the grammatical rules of a given language.
- noninflammable — Not catching fire easily; not flammable.
- norteamericano — a citizen or inhabitant of the U.S., especially as distinguished from the peoples of Spanish-speaking America.
- north american — the northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending from Central America to the Arctic Ocean. Highest point, Mt. McKinley, 20,300 feet (6187 meters); lowest, Death Valley, 276 feet (84 meters) below sea level. About 9,360,000 sq. mi. (24,242,400 sq. km).
- nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
- object program — a computer program translated from the equivalent source program into machine language by the compiler or assembler
- objective caml — (language) (Originally "CAML" - Categorical Abstract Machine Language) A version of ML by G. Huet, G. Cousineau, Ascander Suarez, Pierre Weis, Michel Mauny and others of INRIA. CAML is intermediate between LCF ML and SML [in what sense?]. It has first-class functions, static type inference with polymorphic types, user-defined variant types and product types, and pattern matching. It is built on a proprietary run-time system. The CAML V3.1 implementation added lazy and mutable data structures, a "grammar" mechanism for interfacing with the Yacc parser generator, pretty-printing tools, high-performance arbitrary-precision arithmetic, and a complete library. in 1990 Xavier Leroy and Damien Doligez designed a new implementation called CAML Light, freeing the previous implementation from too many experimental high-level features, and more importantly, from the old Le_Lisp back-end. Following the addition of a native-code compiler and a powerful module system in 1995 and of the object and class layer in 1996, the project's name was changed to Objective CAML. In 2000, Jacques Garrigue added labeled and optional arguments and anonymous variants.
- ockham's razor — Occam's razor.
- of your dreams — If you describe someone or something as the person or thing of your dreams, you mean that you consider them to be ideal or perfect.
- off one's game — playing badly
- on the rampage — behaving violently or destructively
- opening gambit — a preliminary or opening tactic
- ornamentations — Plural form of ornamentation.
- over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- over-dramatize — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
- overdramatized — Simple past tense and past participle of overdramatize.
- overfamiliarly — In an overfamiliar way.
- overprogrammed — characterized by overprogramming
- paddle steamer — a vessel propelled by paddle wheels and driven by steam.
- page mode dram — Page Mode Dynamic Random Access Memory
- pamphleteering — the occupation of a pamphleteer
- panamint range — mountain range in SE Calif., forming the W rim of Death Valley: highest peak, 11,045 ft (3,367 m)
- panoramic view — wide vista or landscape
- pantomime dame — an exaggerated comedic female character in a pantomime played by a male actor
- paragrammatist — a person who makes paragrams
- parametrically — in terms of a parameter
- parsley family — the plant family Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate, usually compound leaves, hollow stems, numerous small flowers borne in umbels, and dry, seedlike, often aromatic fruit, and including anise, caraway, carrot, celery, dill, parsley, parsnip, and Queen Anne's lace, as well as poisonous plants such as cowbane and water hemlock.
- patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
- peace campaign — a campaign for peace or an end to conflict
- pentamethylene — cyclopentane.
- photogrammetry — the process of making surveys and maps through the use of photographs, especially aerial photographs.
- picture-framer — a person or company whose job is to frame photographs, paintings etc
- pinhole camera — a simple camera in which an aperture provided by a pinhole in an opaque diaphragm is used in place of a lens.
- pink champagne — a sparkling white wine, especially of the Champagne district of France, colored slightly by the grape skins during fermentation or the addition of a small amount of red wine just before the second fermentation.