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14-letter words containing e, a, g, l, s

  • inland passage — Inside Passage
  • insanely great — (Macintosh community, from Steve Jobs; also BSD Unix people via Bill Joy) Something so incredibly elegant that it is imaginable only to someone possessing the most puissant of hacker-natures.
  • intelligentsia — Intellectuals or highly educated people as a group, especially when regarded as possessing culture and political influence.
  • interlanguages — Plural form of interlanguage.
  • intersegmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
  • intransigently — In an intransigent manner.
  • irregularities — the quality or state of being irregular.
  • jacobite glass — an English drinking glass of the late 17th or early 18th century, engraved with Jacobite mottoes and symbols.
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • kabalega falls — rapids on the lower Victoria Nile, about 35 km (22 miles) east of Lake Albert, where the Nile drops 120 m (400 ft)
  • knowledge base — (artificial intelligence)   A collection of knowledge expressed using some formal knowledge representation language. A knowledge base forms part of a knowledge-based system (KBS).
  • l-asparaginase — an enzyme that destroys asparagine, a nonessential amino acid needed as a nutrient by rapidly growing cells: used in treating leukemia
  • lake nipissing — a lake in central Canada, in E Ontario between the Ottawa River and Georgian Bay. Area: 855 sq km (330 sq miles)
  • lance sergeant — a sergeant of the lowest rank.
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
  • languorousness — The quality of being languorous.
  • lapsus linguae — a slip of the tongue.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • lead poisoning — Pathology. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
  • league leaders — the team at the top of a league
  • leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • legalistically — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
  • legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
  • legitimateness — The quality of being legitimate.
  • legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
  • lemongrass oil — an aromatic oil made from lemon grass and used in aromatherapy, as a pesticide, and as a preservative
  • lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • 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.
  • lleras camargo — Alberto [ahl-ver-taw] /ɑlˈvɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1906–89, Colombian journalist, writer, and political leader: president 1945–46, 1958–62.
  • longcase clock — tall freestanding timepiece
  • 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
  • longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
  • lose one's rag — If you lose your rag, you suddenly become so angry that you are not in control of yourself.
  • low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
  • 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.
  • luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
  • lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
  • magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
  • magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
  • magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
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