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14-letter words containing e, y, r

  • intersexuality — Having the physical features of both sexes.
  • intersterility — the state of being insterile
  • interstitially — In an interstitial way.
  • intertextually — In an intertextual way.
  • intolerability — not tolerable; unendurable; insufferable: intolerable pain.
  • intramedullary — located within the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, or bone marrow
  • intransigently — In an intransigent manner.
  • intransitively — (grammar) In an intransitive manner; without an object following.
  • introversively — In an introversive manner.
  • inventory cost — Inventory costs are the costs to a business associated with holding stock, or money that is tied up in stock.
  • 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  • irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.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
  • 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.
  • johnny smokers — a plant Geum triflorum, of the rose family, native to North America, having purplish flowers and silky-plumed fruit.
  • juxtamedullary — (anatomy) next to the edge of the medulla (of the kidney).
  • keep your cool — remain calm
  • 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 derby — a horse race for three-year-olds, run annually since 1875, on the first Saturday in May, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.: the first race in the Triple Crown.
  • 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.
  • kidney failure — loss of renal function
  • 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
  • knacker's yard — a slaughterhouse for horses
  • lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
  • ladder company — hook-and-ladder company.
  • ladder polymer — a polymer, as DNA, consisting of double-stranded chains linked by hydrogen bonds or chemical bonds at regular intervals.
  • 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-tresses — any orchid of the genus Spiranthes, having spikes of small flowers.
  • laetare sunday — the fourth Sunday of Lent when the introit begins with “ Laetare Jerusalem ” (Rejoice ye, Jerusalem).
  • larval therapy — the use of maggots that feed on dead tissue to assist in the healing of serious wounds. An ancient practice, it has been revived in rare cases in which healing is hampered by the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
  • late-type star — any star with a surface temperature below that of the sun, of spectral type K, M, C, or S
  • 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.
  • lateral system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to the side of a channel they occupy and their relative position along that side.
  • lattice energy — chemistry: strength of bonds holding ionic solid together
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
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