14-letter words containing a, l, t, e, r, i
- unspiritualize — to deprive of spiritual qualities
- unsplinterable — unable to be splintered
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- urinary tubule — any of the long, winding tubules of the vertebrate kidney in which urine is formed
- utilitarianize — to make utilitarian
- utility player — a player who is capable of playing competently in any of several positions
- valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
- valetudinarian — an invalid.
- value retailer — A value retailer is a retail outlet in which the premises and décor are without frills and where prices are cheaper.
- variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
- variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- vertical angle — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
- vertical union — industrial union.
- verticillaster — an inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged in a seeming whorl, consisting in fact of a pair of opposite axillary, usually sessile, cymes, as in many mints.
- vestal virgins — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
- victor charlie — a Vietcong or the Vietcong; the VC.
- villari effect — the change in magnetic induction that takes place in certain substances when subjected to longitudinal stress.
- virtual memory — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
- virtual retail — Virtual retail is retailing on the Internet.
- visceral cleft — branchial cleft.
- volumetrically — of or relating to measurement by volume.
- wall pellitory — pellitory (sense 1)
- waste material — a useless by-product of an industrial process
- water plantain — any of several marsh plants of the genus Alisma, esp A. plantago-aquatica, of N temperate regions and Australia, having clusters of small white or pinkish flowers and broad pointed leaves: family Alismataceae
- watercolourist — An artist who paints watercolours.
- watering place — British. a seaside or lakeside vacation resort featuring bathing, boating, etc.
- waxleaf privet — an evergreen shrub, Ligustrum japonicum, native to Japan and Korea, having leathery leaves and large clusters of small white flowers.
- weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
- weatherability — the property of a material that permits it to endure or resist exposure to the weather.
- welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
- well-practiced — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- well-practised — having or having been habitually or frequently practised in order to improve skill or quality
- white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
- whitewall tyre — a pneumatic tyre having white sidewalls
- wildcat strike — unofficial work stoppage
- wilhelmstrasse — a street in Berlin, Germany: location of the German foreign office and other government buildings until 1945.
- willow pattern — a decorative design in English ceramics, depicting chiefly a willow tree, small bridge, and two birds, derived from Chinese sources and introduced in approximately 1780: often executed in blue and white but sometimes in red and white.
- windsor castle — a castle in the town of Windsor in Berkshire, residence of English monarchs since its founding by William the Conqueror
- wollaston wire — extremely fine wire formed by a process (Wollaston process) in which the metal, drawn as an ordinary wire, is encased in another metal and the two drawn together, after which the outer metal is stripped off or dissolved.
- wristlet watch — a watch that is attached to a band or bracelet
- xerophytically — As a xerophyte.
- yearly meeting — any of several associations of local Quaker congregations.
- yekaterinoslav — a former name of Dnepropetrovsk.
- yttrium metals — a series of closely related metals including yttrium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, and sometimes, terbium, gadolinium, and dysprosium
- yttrotantalite — a mineral, tantalite and niobate of yttrium and various elements, as iron, and cerium, occurring in the form of brown-black crystals.