14-letter words containing e, y, i
- irreconcilably — incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
- irreducibility — (uncountable) The quality or degree of being irreducible.
- irremovability — The quality or state of being irremovable.
- irreproachably — In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly.
- irrespectively — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
- irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
- isentropically — in an isentropic manner
- isothiocyanate — a chemical compound containing the univalent radical –NCS.
- issue a policy — If an insurer issues a policy, they create an insurance policy and provide it to a customer.
- jefferson city — a city in and the capital of Missouri, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
- jeremy collier — Jeremy, 1650–1726, English clergyman and author.
- jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
- jersey barrier — a type of concrete barricade used especially as a highway divider to protect each side from traffic crossing over.
- jiggery-pokery — trickery, hocus-pocus; fraud; humbug.
- kelyphitic rim — a mineral shell enclosing another mineral in an igneous rock, formed by reaction of the interned mineral with the surrounding rock
- kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
- kentucky fried — Southern-fried (def 1).
- kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
- keystone joist — a reinforced-concrete joist with sloping sides and the top wider than the bottom.
- kidney disease — medical condition affecting the kidneys
- kidney failure — loss of renal function
- kidney machine — artificial kidney.
- kinetic energy — the energy of a body or a system with respect to the motion of the body or of the particles in the system.
- kinetic theory — the theory that the minute particles of all matter are in constant motion and that the temperature of a substance is dependent on the velocity of this motion, increased motion being accompanied by increased temperature: according to the kinetic theory of gases, the elasticity, diffusion, pressure, and other physical properties of a gas are due to the rapid motion in straight lines of its molecules, to their impacts against each other and the walls of the container, to weak cohesive forces between molecules, etc.
- kitty-cornered — cater-cornered
- lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
- lady's-slipper — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, the flowers of which have a protruding petal somewhat resembling a slipper: all species are reduced in numbers, some greatly.
- lady's-thistle — a composite plant, Silybum marianum, of the Mediterranean region, having glossy, spiny leaves and purplish-red flower heads.
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
- latchkey child — a child who must spend at least part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work.
- latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
- lattice energy — chemistry: strength of bonds holding ionic solid together
- laughing hyena — an African hyena, Crocuta crocuta, having a yellowish-gray coat with brown or black spots, noted for its distinctive howl.
- lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
- lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
- legalistically — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
- leiomyosarcoma — (pathology) A cancerous tumor of smooth muscle.
- lending policy — a set of guidelines and criteria developed by a bank and used by its employees to determine whether an applicant for a loan should be granted or refused the loan
- letter quality — of or producing printed characters similar in quality and clarity to typewritten characters
- letter-quality — (of computer printers and their output) pertaining to an appearance equal in legibility and resolution to copy typed on an electric typewriter: A letter-quality printer produces sharper copy than a dot-matrix model.
- letting agency — a business which leases properties on behalf of their owners
- leucocythaemia — leukaemia
- leucocytolysis — the destruction of leucocytes
- leucocytopenia — leucopenia
- leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- liberty bailey — Liberty Hyde, 1858–1954, U.S. botanist, horticulturist, and writer.
- liberty bodice — a sleeveless vest-like undergarment made from thick cotton and covering the upper part of the body, formerly worn esp by young children
- liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.