14-letter words containing a, i, l, e, t
- latchkey child — a child who must spend at least part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work.
- latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
- lateralisation — Alternative spelling of lateralization.
- lateralization — functional specialization of the brain, with some skills, as language, occurring primarily in the left hemisphere and others, as the perception of visual and spatial relationships, occurring primarily in the right hemisphere.
- lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
- latin alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from the Greek alphabet through Etruscan, used from about the 6th century b.c. for the writing of Latin, and since adopted, with modifications and additions of letters such as w, by the languages of Western Europe, including English, as well as many other languages.
- latin american — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
- lattice defect — defect (def 3).
- lattice energy — chemistry: strength of bonds holding ionic solid together
- lattice girder — a trusslike girder having the upper and lower chords connected by latticing.
- lattice window — a window formed of an open framework of wood, metal, etc, arranged to form an ornamental pattern
- laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
- laurent series — a power series in which the negative as well as the positive powers appear.
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- lead the field — If you say that someone leads the field in a particular activity, you mean that they are better, more active, or more successful than everyone else who is involved in it.
- leading rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable but junior to that of a corporal in the army
- leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- lechatelierite — a mineral, an amorphous form of silica formed by the fusion by heat of silica and found in fulgurites.
- lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
- lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- legalistically — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
- legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
- legitimateness — The quality of being legitimate.
- legitimatizing — Present participle of legitimatize.
- legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
- legitimization — to make legitimate.
- leibnitz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
- leisure retail — Leisure retail is used to refer to retail outlets that attract shoppers to spend some of their free time browsing and shopping.
- lepontine alps — a range of the S central Alps, in S Switzerland and N Italy. Highest peak: Monte Leone, 3553 m (11 657 ft)
- leptomeningeal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the leptomeninges.
- letter carrier — mail carrier.
- letter quality — of or producing printed characters similar in quality and clarity to typewritten characters
- letter-quality — (of computer printers and their output) pertaining to an appearance equal in legibility and resolution to copy typed on an electric typewriter: A letter-quality printer produces sharper copy than a dot-matrix model.
- letting agency — a business which leases properties on behalf of their owners
- leucocythaemia — leukaemia
- leucocytopenia — leucopenia
- leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- lexicalisation — Alternative spelling of lexicalization.
- lexicalization — The act or process of lexicalizing.
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
- liberalisation — (British) alternative spelling of liberalization.
- liberalization — (US) The process or act of making more liberal.
- libertarianism — a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.
- liberty bailey — Liberty Hyde, 1858–1954, U.S. botanist, horticulturist, and writer.
- liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
- library ticket — a ticket admitting a person access to a library, esp a reference library
- licentiateship — a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.
- lieutenantship — the office of a lieutenant