14-letter words containing n, a, m, e, d, r
- electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
- emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
- endarterectomy — Surgical removal of part of the inner lining of an artery, together with any obstructive deposits, most often carried out on the carotid artery or on vessels supplying the legs.
- endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
- endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- fairmindedness — Alt form fair-mindedness.
- fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- fragmentedness — The quality of being fragmented.
- french academy — an association of 40 scholars and men and women of letters, established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu and devoted chiefly to preserving the purity of the French language and establishing standards of proper usage.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- garden webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
- gerald sussman — (person) (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
- gerrymandering — U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
- golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
- gregorian mode — church mode.
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
- homeward bound — going home
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydromechanics — hydrodynamics.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
- immoderateness — The quality of being immoderate, lack of moderation or temperance.
- impersonalised — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- impersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of impersonalize.
- imponderabilia — Those things that are imponderable.
- indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
- indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
- indeterminable — not determinable; incapable of being ascertained.
- indeterminably — In an indeterminable manner.
- indeterminates — Plural form of indeterminate.
- indiscriminate — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
- intermediaries — Plural form of intermediary.
- intermediately — being, situated, or acting between two points, stages, things, persons, etc.: the intermediate steps in a procedure.
- intermediating — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
- intermediation — the act of intermediating.
- intermediatory — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
- intramedullary — located within the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, or bone marrow
- inverted comma — quotation mark.
- jonker diamond — a noted diamond weighing 726 carats, discovered in the Transvaal in 1934 and cut into 12 pieces.
- ladder company — hook-and-ladder company.
- lemonade berry — a sumac, Rhus integrifolia, of southern California, having hairy, dark-red fruits used to make a beverage resembling lemonade.
- liberal-minded — espousing liberal views and policies
- literal-minded — unimaginative; prosaic; matter-of-fact.
- load-line mark — any of various marks by which the allowable loading and the load line at load displacement are established for a merchant vessel; a load line.
- maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
- make-and-break — noting or pertaining to a device, operated by an electric current, for automatically opening or closing a circuit once it has been closed or opened by a mechanical springlike device, as in a doorbell.