14-letter words containing e, l, g, i, s
- licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.
- lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
- light the fuse — If someone or something lights the fuse of a particular situation or activity, they suddenly get it started.
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- lignocellulose — any of various compounds of lignin and cellulose comprising the essential part of woody cell walls.
- 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.
- limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
- listening post — Military. a post or position, as in advance of a defensive line, established for the purpose of listening to detect the enemy's movements.
- locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
- logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
- lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
- lovingkindness — kindness or affectionate behavior resulting from or expressing love
- lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
- lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
- 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
- magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
- magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- manual testing — (testing) That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
- maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- megascopically — macroscopically
- metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
- metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
- metallic glass — glassy alloy.
- meteorologists — Plural form of meteorologist.
- methodologists — Plural form of methodologist.
- middle english — the English language of the period c1150–c1475. Abbreviation: ME.
- middle passage — the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships.
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
- mineral spring — a spring of water that contains a significant amount of dissolved minerals.
- miscounselling — the act of giving bad or incorrect counselling
- mixed blessing — something that, although generally favorable or advantageous, has one or more unfavorable or disadvantageous features.
- mixed feelings — conflicted emotions
- modern english — the English language since c1475.
- molly maguires — a secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions
- monoglycerides — Plural form of monoglyceride.
- multireligious — belonging to or following more than one religion
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- museologically — In a museological manner.
- negri sembilan — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 2580 sq. mi. (6682 sq. km). Capital: Seremban.
- neighborliness — having or showing qualities befitting a neighbor; friendly.
- neil armstrong — (Daniel) Louis ("Satchmo") 1900–71, U.S. jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
- neolinguistics — a school of linguistics centered in Italy emphasizing the importance of linguistic geography in diachronic studies.
- neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.