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

  • royal marriage — a meld of the king and queen of trumps, as in pinochle. Compare marriage (def 9).
  • rural delivery — a mail service in a country area, often run by contractors for the Post Office
  • sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • sacrilegiously — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
  • sacrococcygeal — relating to the sacrum and the coccyx
  • salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
  • sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
  • scaly anteater — pangolin.
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • scenic railway — a railroad that carries its passengers on a brief tour of an amusement park, resort, etc.
  • scheme library — (library)   (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
  • secondary cell — storage cell.
  • secondary wall — the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
  • self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
  • semi-paralysis — Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
  • semi-paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • seward's folly — the purchase of Alaska in 1867, through the negotiations of Secretary of State W. H. Seward.
  • seyfert galaxy — one of a group of spiral galaxies with compact, bright nuclei having characteristically broad emission lines suggestive of very hot gases in violent motion at the center.
  • silky anteater — an arboreal, tropical American anteater, Cyclopes didactylus, about the size of a rat, having a prehensile tail, glossy, golden fur, and two toes on each forelimb.
  • slaughterously — murderously
  • slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
  • slurry reactor — A slurry reactor is a reactor in which contact is achieved by suspending a solid in a liquid.
  • solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
  • solvay process — a process for manufacturing sodium carbonate whereby a concentrated solution of sodium chloride is saturated with ammonia, carbon dioxide is passed through it, and the product is calcined.
  • south-easterly — A south-easterly point, area, or direction is to the south-east or towards the south-east.
  • spectacularity — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  • spectra yellow — a vivid yellow color.
  • sphaerocrystal — a spherical crystalline mass
  • st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
  • stanley dancer — Stanley, 1927–2005, U.S. harness racer and trainer.
  • steely-hearted — hard-hearted
  • strait-lacedly — in a strait-laced manner
  • street railway — a company that operates streetcars or buses.
  • stretchability — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
  • superficiality — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • supernaturally — of, relating to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal.
  • supersexuality — the quality of having a strong sexual appetite
  • supply teacher — A supply teacher is a teacher whose job is to take the place of other teachers at different schools when they are unable to be there.
  • sycamore maple — a maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, of Europe and western Asia, having gray bark and opposite, lobed leaves: grown as a shade tree.
  • symmetry plane — reflection plane.
  • tailgate party — A tailgate party is a social gathering at which food is served from or near a vehicle, especially in a parking lot before a sports game.
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • territoriality — territorial quality, condition, or status.
  • tertiary color — a color, as brown, produced by mixing two secondary colors.
  • testamentarily — in a testamentary manner
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