14-letter words containing a, i, l, u
- aluminium foil — thin sheets of foil used to wrap food
- aluminohydride — (inorganic compound) The univalent anion, AlH4-, present in such compounds as lithium aluminium hydride.
- aluminum brass — an alloy of about 75 percent copper, 2 percent aluminum, small amounts of other elements, and the balance zinc.
- aluminum oxide — alumina
- aluminum plant — a glossy green- or silver-leaved herb, Pilea cadierei, often grown as a houseplant.
- alumosilicates — Plural form of alumosilicate.
- amadis of gaul — the title character of a medieval prose romance in Spanish
- ambidextrously — In an ambidextrous manner.
- american lotus — water chinquapin (def 1).
- ammonia liquor — a concentrated solution of ammonia, ammonium compounds, and sulfur compounds, obtained as a by-product in the destructive distillation of bituminous coal.
- amniotic fluid — the fluid surrounding the fetus in the womb
- analysis situs — topology (defs 1, 2).
- angustifoliate — having thin or narrow leaves
- anisodactylous — Zoology. having the toes unlike, or unequal in number.
- antediluvially — in antediluvian times, in times before the Flood
- anti-neuralgic — sharp and paroxysmal pain along the course of a nerve.
- anti-smuggling — to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty.
- anti-stimulant — Physiology, Medicine/Medical. something that temporarily quickens some vital process or the functional activity of some organ or part: Adrenalin is a stimulant for the heart. Compare depressant (def 4).
- anticoagulants — Also, anticoagulative [an-tee-koh-ag-yuh-ley-tiv, -luh-tiv, an-tahy-] /ˌæn ti koʊˈæg yəˌleɪ tɪv, -lə tɪv, ˌæn taɪ-/ (Show IPA). preventing coagulation, especially of blood.
- anticonvulsant — any of a class of drugs used to prevent or abolish convulsions
- anticonvulsive — preventing or alleviating convulsions
- antifilibuster — a person or method in opposition to filibustering
- antihomosexual — opposed to homosexual people and behaviour
- antiregulatory — opposed to regulation
- antirepublican — opposed to the principles or practice of republicanism
- antiscriptural — opposed to or contradicting scripture
- antitubercular — acting against tuberculosis
- antiulcerative — An antiulcerative is an agent that prevents the formation or promotes the healing of ulcers.
- aquifoliaceous — related to the Aquifoliaceae family of plants, the only living genus of which is the holly (Ilex) genus
- arabic numeral — one of the symbols 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 (opposed to Roman numerals)
- arboricultural — Of or pertaining to the care, planting and maintenance of trees.
- area pellucida — the translucent central area of the blastoderm of birds and reptiles within which the embryo develops.
- armour-plating — The armour-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering which is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
- articulateness — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
- as you like it — a comedy (1599?) by Shakespeare.
- assaultiveness — the condition of being assaultive
- at first blush — when first seen; as a first impression
- atrial flutter — irregular heart rhythm
- auditory canal — the narrow passageway from the outer ear to the eardrum.
- augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
- aurothiomalate — (chemistry) A thiomalate with the addition of gold.
- aussie battler — an Australian working-class person
- austrian blind — a window blind consisting of rows of vertically gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
- authority file — a file, either on cards or in machine-readable format, in which decisions involving bibliographic records, particularly for form of entry, are recorded to establish a precedent or rule for subsequent decisions and to provide for consistency of entries.
- autocollimator — an instrument combining the functions of a telescope and collimator, for detecting and measuring very small deviations in a beam of light.
- autocratically — In an autocratic manner.
- autopilot code — (jargon, humour) Code that was written by a programmer on "auto-pilot" who wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
- autopolyploidy — having more than two haploid sets of chromosomes that are derived from the same ancestral species.
- autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
- autotetraploid — an individual or strain whose chromosome complement consists of four copies of a single genome due to doubling of an ancestral chromosome complement