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14-letter words containing a, i, l, e, t

  • life and death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
  • life-and-death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
  • lift attendant — a person who operates a lift, esp in large public or commercial buildings and hotels
  • light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • lightheartedly — In a lighthearted manner, cheerfully, with joy.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • like this/that — You use like this or like that when you are drawing attention to something that you are doing or that someone else is doing.
  • line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
  • line of battle — a line formed by troops or ships for delivering or receiving an attack.
  • linkage editor — linker
  • linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • literal-minded — unimaginative; prosaic; matter-of-fact.
  • literalization — The act or process of literalizing.
  • literary agent — a person who manages the business affairs of an author
  • little america — a base in the Antarctic, on the Bay of Whales, S of the Ross Sea: established by Adm. Richard E. Byrd of the U.S. Navy in 1929; used for later Antarctic expeditions.
  • little daedala — either of two festivals held in ancient Boeotia in honor of the reconciliation of Hera with Zeus, one (Little Daedala) being held every 6 years, the other (Great Daedala) every 59 years.
  • little richard — (Richard Wayne Penniman) born 1932, U.S. rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist.
  • little russian — former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.
  • little theater — generally noncommercial drama, usually of an experimental nature and directed at a limited audience.
  • little theatre — small venue for amateur dramatics
  • local election — an election to select members for a local council
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • lord baltimore — David, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
  • lothian region — a former local government region in SE central Scotland, formed in 1975 from East Lothian, most of Midlothian, and West Lothian; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, and Edinburgh
  • 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.
  • love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
  • machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
  • macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
  • magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
  • magnetic field — a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
  • magnetooptical — Having both magnetic and optical elements.
  • magniloquently — In a magniloquent manner.
  • magnolia metal — an alloy used for bearings, consisting largely of lead (up to 80 per cent) and antimony, with the addition of smaller quantities of iron and tin
  • magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
  • maine-et-loire — a department in W France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Angers.
  • maitre d'hotel — a headwaiter.
  • majesticalness — the glory or majesty of someone or something
  • major mitchell — an Australian cockatoo, Kakatoe leadbeateri, with a white-and-pink plumage
  • make little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
  • malapportioned — (of a state or other political unit) poorly apportioned, especially divided, organized, or structured in a manner that prevents large sections of a population from having equitable representation in a legislative body.
  • malappropriate — inappropriate
  • male-dominated — with men in control
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
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