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14-letter words containing a, l, y, m, e, r

  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
  • exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
  • experimentally — In the manner of an experiment.
  • extrapyramidal — Relating to or denoting nerves concerned with motor activity that descend from the cortex to the spine and are not part of the pyramidal system.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
  • family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
  • femoral artery — the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.
  • ferry terminal — docking area for passenger boats
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • hydrothermally — By hydrothermal means.
  • hypercalcaemia — a heightened level of calcium in the blood
  • hypercalcaemic — of or relating to hypercalcaemia
  • hyperemotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
  • hyperglycaemia — an abnormally high level of glucose in the blood.
  • hyperglycaemic — Alternative spelling of hyperglycemic.
  • hyperlipidemia — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; lipemia.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
  • hyperpermeable — Having higher than normal permeability.
  • hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
  • hypodermically — By hypodermic means.
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • impermeability — not permeable; impassable.
  • imperviability — the quality of being imperviable
  • impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
  • impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indeterminably — In an indeterminable manner.
  • innumerability — The state of being innumerable.
  • instrumentally — By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end.
  • intermaxillary — Between the maxillae.
  • intermediately — being, situated, or acting between two points, stages, things, persons, etc.: the intermediate steps in a procedure.
  • internal rhyme — a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse.
  • intramedullary — located within the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, or bone marrow
  • irremovability — The quality or state of being irremovable.
  • juxtamedullary — (anatomy) next to the edge of the medulla (of the kidney).
  • lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
  • ladder company — hook-and-ladder company.
  • ladder polymer — a polymer, as DNA, consisting of double-stranded chains linked by hydrogen bonds or chemical bonds at regular intervals.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • lateral system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to the side of a channel they occupy and their relative position along that side.
  • leiomyosarcoma — (pathology) A cancerous tumor of smooth muscle.
  • lemonade berry — a sumac, Rhus integrifolia, of southern California, having hairy, dark-red fruits used to make a beverage resembling lemonade.
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