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

  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • exasperatingly — In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
  • exceptionalism — The state of being special, exceptional or unique.
  • expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
  • expansion slot — (hardware)   A connector in a computer into which an expansion card can be plugged. The connector supplies power to the card and connects it to the data bus, address bus and control signals of the motherboard.
  • exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
  • explorationist — a person involved in exploration, esp of oil, gas, etc
  • expostulations — Plural form of expostulation.
  • extrapolations — Plural form of extrapolation.
  • eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
  • false position — a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests
  • false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
  • fetal position — a bodily posture resembling that of the fetus in the uterus, in which the body is curled with head and limbs drawn in, sometimes assumed in states of fear or emotional withdrawal.
  • flashing point — flash point (def 1).
  • gallinas point — a cape in NE Colombia: the northernmost point of South America
  • galvanoplastic — pertaining to reproduction by electrotypy.
  • galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
  • genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
  • hair-splitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
  • happenstantial — Being or relating to happenstance.
  • happy slapping — the practice of attacking, esp slapping, an unsuspecting passer-by and filming it with a mobile camera phone, footage of which is then circulated for the amusement of others
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • hospital train — a military train equipped to transport wounded troops to a hospital.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hypersonically — In a hypersonic way.
  • hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
  • hypophalangism — the condition of having fewer than the normal number of phalanges per finger or toe.
  • impassableness — The quality of being impassable.
  • impassionately — filled with passion; impassioned.
  • impersonalised — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
  • impersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of impersonalize.
  • implacableness — The quality of being implacable.
  • impressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
  • in high places — People in high places are people who have powerful and influential positions in a government, society, or organization.
  • inauspiciously — not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
  • incapabilities — not capable.
  • incorporealism — Existence without a body or material form; immateriality.
  • inculpableness — The quality of being inculpable; blamelessness.
  • indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
  • indispensables — Plural form of indispensable.
  • inescapability — (uncountable) The state or property of being inescapable.
  • infralapsarian — a person who believes in infralapsarianism.
  • inland passage — Inside Passage
  • inseparability — incapable of being separated, parted, or disjoined: inseparable companions.
  • inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
  • inspectability — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
  • instant replay — Also called, British, action replay. Television. the recording and immediate rebroadcasting of a segment of a live television broadcast, especially of a sports event: an instant replay of the touchdown pass. a segment recorded and immediately rebroadcast.
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