14-letter words containing a, l, o, u, e, t
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- go up the wall — to become crazy or furious
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
- haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
- health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
- heterosexually — In a heterosexual way.
- holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
- household arts — activities such as sewing, cooking, etc, that are conducted in the running of a household
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
- intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
- intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
- job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
- journal intime — a personal or private diary.
- juvenilization — The act or process of juvenilizing.
- kastrop-rauxel — Castrop-Rauxel.
- keep a lookout — If someone keeps a lookout, especially on a boat, they look around all the time in order to make sure there is no danger.
- krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
- lanterne rouge — a notional award given to the competitor who finishes last in a cycle race
- late check-out — A late check-out at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check out later than the normal time.
- lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
- leptodactylous — having slender toes or fingers.
- leucocythaemia — leukaemia
- leucocytopenia — leucopenia
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- 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.
- loan guarantee — an undertaking by a government to pay a debt if the borrower defaults
- 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.
- longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
- 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.
- lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
- lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
- lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
- macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
- magniloquently — In a magniloquent manner.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- melastomaceous — belonging to the family Melastomataceae (also known as Melastomaceae)