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14-letter words containing a, l, n, d, i, s

  • isabela island — an island in the Pacific Ocean, off the W coast of South America: the largest of the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. 2250 sq. mi. (5827 sq. km).
  • island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
  • isolated point — Mathematics. a point in a set such that the neighborhood of the point is devoid of any other points belonging to the set.
  • isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
  • jardin anglais — a landscape garden having winding paths and irregular planting.
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
  • lagoon islands — a former name of Tuvalu.
  • landing lights — aircraft lights used when landing
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • lead poisoning — Pathology. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
  • liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • lipari islands — a group of volcanic islands under Italian administration off the N coast of Sicily: remains that form a continuous record from Neolithic times. Chief town: Lipari. Pop: 10 554 (2001). Area: 114 sq km (44 sq miles)
  • liquidationist — pertaining to or promoting a theory of economics which holds that governments should not interfere in a recession
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
  • lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
  • medicalisation — Alternative spelling of medicalization.
  • mental disease — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
  • merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
  • merritt island — a town in E Florida.
  • methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
  • middle eastern — Also called Mideast. (loosely) the area from Libya E to Afghanistan, usually including Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the other countries of the Arabian peninsula.
  • middle persian — the Persian language at a stage that begins c300 b.c. and includes Pahlavi (attested from the 3rd to the 7th centuries a.d.) as well as the West Iranian literatures (3rd–10th centuries a.d.) of religions carried outside Persia. Abbreviation: MPers.
  • midway islands — an atoll in the central Pacific, about 2100 km (1300 miles) northwest of Honolulu: annexed by the US in 1867: scene of a decisive battle (June, 1942), in which the US combined fleets destroyed Japan's carrier fleet. Pop: 40 (2013 est). Area: 5 sq km (2 sq miles)
  • mills-and-boon — of or relating to novels by the British publisher Mills and Boon, esp in being romantic or sexual in nature
  • minicoy island — a small island in the S Laccadive Islands, off the SW coast of India. 1.25 sq. mi. (3.24 sq. km).
  • misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
  • modal analysis — Modal analysis is the analysis of a structure to find its natural frequencies of vibration.
  • muslin delaine — mousseline de laine.
  • national dress — the traditional clothing of a country
  • new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
  • news headlines — a short news broadcast briefly outlining the main news stories of the day
  • nodal analysis — Nodal analysis is a method of analyzing circuits based on defining node voltages as the variables.
  • non-admissible — that may be allowed or conceded; allowable: an admissible plan.
  • non-classified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • non-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • nonclandestine — not clandestine or secret; open
  • nondimensional — Not dimensional.
  • nonestablished — without the official support of the government
  • nonresidential — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
  • norfolk island — an island in the S Pacific between New Caledonia and New Zealand: a territory of Australia. 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
  • normal divisor — a normal subgroup.
  • old line state — Maryland (used as a nickname).
  • orbital sander — a sander that uses a section of sandpaper clamped to a metal pad that moves at high speed in a very narrow orbit, driven by an electric motor.
  • orkney islands — group of islands north of Scotland, constituting an administrative division of Scotland: 377 sq mi (976 sq km); pop. 20,000
  • outlandishness — The quality of being outlandish.
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