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14-letter words containing c, e, l, r, y

  • enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • ethyl chloride — a colorless liquid, C2H5Cl, prepared by heating ethyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride in the presence of zinc chloride: used in preparing tetraethyl lead and ethyl cellulose, and as a local anesthetic
  • exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
  • extractability — (uncountable) The condition of being extractable.
  • extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
  • eyeball search — (jargon)   (Or vgrep) To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool. Compare vdiff, desk check.
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
  • 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
  • fertility cult — a religious cult devoted to the enhancement of the fertility of persons, plants, or animals, by means of rituals often associated with a particular deity.
  • financial year — law: annual accounting period
  • firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
  • firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
  • flying officer — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a pilot officer but junior to a flight lieutenant in the British and certain other air forces
  • foley catheter — an indwelling catheter used for draining urine from the bladder and having an inflatable part at the bladder end that allows the tube to be kept in place for variable time periods.
  • forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
  • foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
  • friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
  • frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
  • geographically — of or relating to geography.
  • glyceraldehyde — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 3 H 6 O 3 , that is an intermediate in carbohydrate metabolism and yields glycerol on reduction.
  • glyceryl group — the trivalent group (C 3 H 5)− 3 , derived from glycerol.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • he-huckleberry — swamp andromeda.
  • hierarchically — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hierarchy.
  • hieroglyphical — Hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs.
  • highly charged — electrical
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • holy sepulcher — the sepulcher in which the body of Jesus lay between His burial and His resurrection.
  • holy sepulchre — the tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion
  • honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
  • horace greeley — Horace, 1811–72, U.S. journalist, editor, and political leader.
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • hybrid vehicle — A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle using two different forms of power, such as an electric motor and an internal combustion engine, or an electric motor with a battery and fuel cells for energy storage.
  • hydraulic pile — a hollow pile through which a jet of water is forced to wash away the ground beneath.
  • hydrocellulose — a gelatinous substance obtained by the partial hydrolysis of cellulose, used chiefly in the manufacture of paper, mercerized cotton, and viscose rayon.
  • hydrocephaloid — resembling hydrocephalus.
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • hydrochlorides — Plural form of hydrochloride.
  • hyperbarically — in a hyperbaric manner
  • hyperbatically — in a hyperbatic manner
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