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

  • applicableness — applying or capable of being applied; relevant; suitable; appropriate: an applicable rule; a solution that is applicable to the problem.
  • appreciational — gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.
  • appreciatively — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
  • apprehensively — uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
  • archetypically — the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
  • archiepiscopal — of or associated with an archbishop
  • arctic redpoll — a finch, Carduelis hornemanni, of the family Fringillidae, which breeds in tundra birch forest
  • area pellucida — the translucent central area of the blastoderm of birds and reptiles within which the embryo develops.
  • arthroplasties — Plural form of arthroplasty.
  • assembly point — a designated place where people have been told to wait after evacuating a building in the event of a fire or other emergency
  • assisted place — a place at a private school reserved for a pupil from a family with a low income, with the fees paid by the government
  • at one's peril — If you say that someone does something at their peril, you are warning them that they will probably suffer as a result of doing it.
  • attemptability — the capability of being attempted or condition of being attemptable
  • autopilot code — (jargon, humour)   Code that was written by a programmer on "auto-pilot" who wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
  • autotetraploid — an individual or strain whose chromosome complement consists of four copies of a single genome due to doubling of an ancestral chromosome complement
  • avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
  • back-pedalling — a retreat from or a retraction of a previously held view
  • backflap hinge — Building Trades. flap (def 20a).
  • balance spring — hairspring.
  • ballet slipper — a heelless cloth or leather slipper worn by ballet dancers.
  • baltimore chop — a batted ball that takes a high bounce upon hitting the ground on or immediately in front of home plate, often enabling the batter to reach first base safely.
  • baptismal name — Christian name (def 1).
  • be in the loop — If someone is in the loop, they are part of a group of people who make decisions about important things, or they know about these decisions. If they are out of the loop, they do not make or know about important decisions.
  • beveridge plan — the plan for comprehensive social insurance, proposed by Sir William Beveridge in Great Britain in 1941.
  • bible-thumping — an evangelist or other person who quotes the Bible frequently, especially as a means of exhortation or rebuke.
  • bicuspid valve — mitral valve
  • bishops' bible — an English translation of the Bible made under the direction of Matthew Parker and published in 1568: the recognized translation of the Bible in England until the Authorized (King James) Version of 1611.
  • bite one's lip — If you bite your lip or your tongue, you stop yourself from saying something that you want to say, because it would be the wrong thing to say in the circumstances.
  • bits per pixel — (hardware, graphics)   (bpp) The number of bits of information stored per pixel of an image or displayed by a graphics adapter. The more bits there are, the more colours can be represented, but the more memory is required to store or display the image. A colour can be described by the intensities of red, green and blue (RGB) components. Allowing 8 bits (1 byte) per component (24 bits per pixel) gives 256 levels for each component and over 16 million different colours - more than the human eye can distinguish. Microsoft Windows [and others?] calls this truecolour. An image of 1024x768 with 24 bpp requires over 2 MB of memory. "High colour" uses 16 bpp (or 15 bpp), 5 bits for blue, 5 bits for red and 6 bits for green. This reduced colour precision gives a slight loss of image quality at a 1/3 saving on memory. Standard VGA uses a palette of 16 colours (4 bpp), each colour in the palette is 24 bit. Standard SVGA uses a palette of 256 colours (8 bpp). Some graphics hardware and software support 32-bit colour depths, including an 8-bit "alpha channel" for transparency effects.
  • blister copper — an impure form of copper having a blister-like surface due to the release of gas during cooling
  • blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
  • blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
  • bomb explosion — an explosion caused by the detonation of a bomb
  • bone porcelain — bone china.
  • bottomless pit — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
  • brachycephalic — having a head nearly as broad from side to side as from front to back, esp one with a cephalic index over 80
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • breast implant — an object such as a sachet filled with gel introduced surgically into a woman's breast to enlarge it
  • bubonic plague — Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
  • bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
  • building paper — any of various types of heavy-duty paper that usually consist of bitumen reinforced with fibre sandwiched between two sheets of kraft paper: used in damp-proofing or as insulation between the soil and a road surface
  • business reply — a form of mail, as a postcard, letter, or envelope, usually sent as an enclosure, and which can be mailed back by respondents without their having to pay postage.
  • businesspeople — a person regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
  • cafeteria plan — a fringe-benefit plan under which employees may choose from among various benefits those that best fit their needs, up to a specified dollar value.
  • caller display — a facility which shows the number of an incoming call
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
  • camp fire girl — a girl who is a member of Camp Fire, Inc., an organization for girls founded in 1910, and since 1975 also including boys, to promote character-building activities
  • campaign medal — a medal awarded for performance of specified service, usually in time of war or national emergency.
  • cap the climax — to be or do more than could be expected or believed
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