14-letter words containing e, l, i
- arithmetically — the method or process of computation with figures: the most elementary branch of mathematics.
- art collection — a collection of art works
- arthroplasties — Plural form of arthroplasty.
- articled clerk — a trainee solicitor bound by a written contract
- articulateness — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
- artificial ear — a device consisting of microelectrodes that deliver electrical stimuli directly to the auditory nerve when surgically implanted into the cochlea, enabling a person with sensorineural deafness to hear.
- artificial eye — a manufactured eye of glass, plastic, or other material, usually hemispherical or cup-shaped, worn cosmetically over a blind eye or in the socket of a lost eye and sometimes attached to muscles to provide movement.
- artificialized — Simple past tense and past participle of artificialize.
- artificialness — the condition of being non-natural, unnatural or spurious
- as big as life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
- as you like it — a comedy (1599?) by Shakespeare.
- asiatic beetle — a Japanese scarabaeid beetle, Anomala orientalis, introduced into Hawaii and the northeastern US: a serious pest of sugar cane and cereal crops because it destroys the roots
- assaultiveness — the condition of being assaultive
- 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
- asseveratingly — in an asseverating or affirming manner
- 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
- associableness — The state or quality of being associable.
- astrogeologist — a person who studies astrogeology
- asymmetrically — not identical on both sides of a central line; unsymmetrical; lacking symmetry: Most faces are asymmetric.
- 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.
- athletic coach — a person qualified to train athletes
- athletic heart — nonpathological enlargement of the heart resulting from intensive aerobic exercise.
- atlantic liner — a large passenger ship that regularly crosses the Atlantic Ocean
- atlantic ocean — the world's second largest ocean, bounded in the north by the Arctic, in the south by the Antarctic, in the west by North and South America, and in the east by Europe and Africa. Greatest depth: 9220 m (30 246 ft). Area: about 81 585 000 sq km (31 500 000 sq miles)
- atrial flutter — irregular heart rhythm
- attainableness — The state or quality of being attainable.
- attemptability — the capability of being attempted or condition of being attemptable
- attention line — a line of text after the address on a piece of correspondence, directing it to a particular person or department.
- augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
- aurothiomalate — (chemistry) A thiomalate with the addition of gold.
- aussie battler — an Australian working-class person
- authority file — a file, either on cards or in machine-readable format, in which decisions involving bibliographic records, particularly for form of entry, are recorded to establish a precedent or rule for subsequent decisions and to provide for consistency of entries.
- autopilot code — (jargon, humour) Code that was written by a programmer on "auto-pilot" who wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
- autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
- autotetraploid — an individual or strain whose chromosome complement consists of four copies of a single genome due to doubling of an ancestral chromosome complement
- auxiliary note — a nonharmonic note occurring between two harmonic notes
- auxiliary tone — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and returning to the principal tone; embellishment.
- auxiliary verb — a verb used to indicate the tense, voice, mood, etc, of another verb where this is not indicated by inflection, such as English will in he will go, was in he was eating and he was eaten, do in I do like you, etc
- availabilities — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
- avalanche lily — a wildflower (Erythronium montanum) of the lily family, native to the mountain meadows of Washington and Oregon and blooming in June among the melting snowbanks
- avalanche wind — the wind that is created in front of an avalanche.
- avalokitesvara — a male Bodhisattva, widely revered and identified with various persons and gods.
- avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
- axial skeleton — the bones that together comprise the skull and the vertebral column
- axis of diesel — a name given to a bloc of countries (Russia, Iran, and Venezuela) whose reserves of oil enhance their political importance
- azimuth circle — a device for measuring azimuths, consisting of a graduated ring equipped with a sighting vane on each side, which fits concentrically over a compass.
- babbling error — (networking) An Ethernet node attempting to transmit more than 1518 data bytes - the largest allowed Ethernet packet. This is why the Maximum Transmission Unit for IP traffic on Ethernet is 1500.
- back-pedalling — a retreat from or a retraction of a previously held view
- backbreakingly — In a backbreaking manner.
- backflap hinge — Building Trades. flap (def 20a).