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14-letter words containing e, l, i, d

  • split decision — a decision of a bout on whose outcome the referee and judges did not unanimously agree.
  • spoiled priest — a person who was a student for the priesthood but who has withdrawn or been dismissed
  • spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
  • squared circle — a wrestling ring
  • squared splice — square splice.
  • steel industry — production of steel
  • stewart island — one of the islands of New Zealand, S of South Island. 670 sq. mi. (1735 sq. km).
  • stirred vessel — A stirred vessel is a vessel in which a device moves to mix something.
  • straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
  • strait-lacedly — in a strait-laced manner
  • striped marlin — a marlin, Tetrapturus audax, of the Pacific Ocean, having the sides of the body marked with dark blue vertical stripes, valued for sport and food.
  • striped muscle — a type of contractile tissue that is marked by transverse striations; it is concerned with moving skeletal parts to which it is usually attached
  • structuralized — to form into or make part of a structure.
  • studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
  • stuffed animal — soft toy
  • sucking diesel — doing very well; successful
  • suicide clause — a clause in a life-insurance policy stating that the insurer is required to pay only the reserve or the total premiums paid if the policyholder should commit suicide within a stated period.
  • sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.
  • sulfur dioxide — a colorless, nonflammable, water-soluble, suffocating gas, SO 2 , formed when sulfur burns: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals such as sulfuric acid, in preserving fruits and vegetables, and in bleaching, disinfecting, and fumigating.
  • sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
  • sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
  • supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
  • superinsulated — highly insulated
  • swallow-tailed — having a deeply forked tail like that of a swallow, as various birds.
  • swamp milkweed — a coarse milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, growing in swampy places from eastern North America to Colorado, having ball-like clusters of rose-purple flowers.
  • swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
  • syllable-timed — having a rhythm in which syllables are approximately equal in duration and thus tend to follow each other at regular intervals of time.
  • tabes dorsalis — syphilis of the spinal cord and its appendages, characterized by shooting pains and other sensory disturbances, and, in the later stages, by paralysis.
  • take a dislike — If you take a dislike to someone or something, you decide that you do not like them.
  • take the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
  • tandem bicycle — a bicycle for two or more persons, having seats and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem, especially popular in the 19th century.
  • tandem trailer — Also called double-bottom, double-trailer truck, tandem. a very long rig consisting of a tractor pulling two trailers hooked up one behind another.
  • tatterdemalion — a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
  • tax-deductible — noting an item the value or cost of which is deductible from the gross amount on which a tax is calculated.
  • teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
  • tellurous acid — a white, crystalline powder, H2TeO3
  • the cordeliers — a political club founded in 1790 and meeting at an old Cordelier convent in Paris
  • the federalist — a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the very devil — something very difficult or awkward
  • the wild geese — the Irish expatriates who served as professional soldiers with the Catholic powers of Europe, esp France, from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
  • the wilderness — the barren regions to the south and east of Palestine, esp those in which the Israelites wandered before entering the Promised Land and in which Christ fasted for 40 days and nights
  • the-federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
  • theodore bilbo — Theodore Gilmore [gil-mawr,, -mohr] /ˈgɪl mɔr,, -moʊr/ (Show IPA), 1877–1947, U.S. Southern populist politician: senator 1935–47.
  • third quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the largest quartile; the 75th percentile; the value of the variable below which three quarters of the elements are located.
  • third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
  • thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
  • tic douloureux — a condition of momentary stabbing pain along the trigeminal nerve
  • tin difluoride — stannous fluoride.
  • to strike gold — If you strike gold, you find, do, or produce something that brings you a lot of money or success.
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