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

  • studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
  • styptic pencil — a pencil-shaped stick of a paste containing alum or a similar styptic agent, used to stanch the bleeding of minor cuts.
  • sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
  • 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
  • super-rational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
  • supercelestial — located above the heavens; above the heavens or celestial regions
  • superciliously — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
  • supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • supereminently — in a supereminent manner; to a supereminent degree
  • superessential — beyond or above essence; transcending being
  • superficiality — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superficialize — to treat things superficially
  • superimposable — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
  • superinflation — hyperinflation.
  • superinsulated — highly insulated
  • superluxurious — extremely luxurious
  • supermasculine — highly masculine
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • supersexuality — the quality of having a strong sexual appetite
  • superstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • susceptibility — state or character of being susceptible: susceptibility to disease.
  • susceptible of — that gives a chance for; admitting; allowing
  • susceptible to — liable to
  • suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
  • sussex spaniel — one of an English breed of shortlegged spaniels having a golden liver-colored coat.
  • 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.
  • symmetric lisp — A parallel Lisp in which environments are first-class objects. It is implemented in Common LISP. E-mail: Suresh Jagannathan <[email protected]>.
  • synaptic cleft — the small gap, measured in nanometers, between an axon terminal and any of the cell membranes in the immediate vicinity.
  • 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.
  • tatar republic — a constituent republic of W Russia, around the confluence of the Volga and Kama Rivers. Capital: Kazan. Pop: 3 779 800 (2002). Area: 68 000 sq km (26 250 sq miles)
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • telepathically — communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception.
  • telephone line — phone connection
  • telephone wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • telephonically — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
  • teleprocessing — computerized processing and transmission of data over the telephone or other long-distance communications systems.
  • telescopically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
  • teletypewriter — a telegraphic apparatus by which signals are sent by striking the letters and symbols of the keyboard of an instrument resembling a typewriter and are received by a similar instrument that automatically prints them in type corresponding to the keys struck. Abbreviation: TTY.
  • tenpin bowling — Tenpin bowling is a game in which you roll a heavy ball down a narrow track toward a group of wooden objects and try to knock down as many of them as possible.
  • terminal point — the final destination or station of a bus or rail journey
  • the apple isle — Tasmania
  • the capitoline — the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome. The temple of Jupiter was on the southern summit and the ancient citadel on the northern summit
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the palaeozoic — the Palaeozoic era
  • the palatinate — either of two territories in SW Germany, once ruled by the counts palatine. Upper Palatinate is now in Bavaria; Lower or Rhine Palatinate is now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse
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