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14-letter words containing i, d, y, l, s, t

  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
  • grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
  • hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
  • idealistically — of or relating to idealism or idealists.
  • inadvisability — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
  • incandescently — (of light) produced by incandescence.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • indivisibility — not divisible; not separable into parts; incapable of being divided: one nation indivisible.
  • insecticidally — in an insecticidal manner
  • lady's-thistle — a composite plant, Silybum marianum, of the Mediterranean region, having glossy, spiny leaves and purplish-red flower heads.
  • 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
  • liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
  • light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
  • liquid crystal — a liquid having certain crystalline characteristics, especially different optical properties in different directions when exposed to an electric field.
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • modestly sized — moderately sized; not very large, but not small
  • mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
  • pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
  • police custody — If somebody or something is in police custody, they are kept somewhere secure, under the supervision of police officers, for example in a police station.
  • polydispersity — the state of being polydisperse
  • potato psyllid — a tiny homopterous insect, Paratrioza cockerelli, occurring in some areas of the western U.S., western Canada, and Mexico: a serious pest to potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers, the nymphs acting as vectors in the transmission of psyllid yellows.
  • pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
  • road stability — the extent to which a motor vehicle is stable and does not skid, esp at high speeds, or on sharp bends or wet roads
  • safety islands — a group of three small French islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of French Guiana
  • sesquipedality — given to using long words.
  • single density — a disk with the normal capacity for storage
  • solid geometry — the geometry of solid figures; geometry of three dimensions.
  • spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
  • steel industry — production of steel
  • strait-lacedly — in a strait-laced manner
  • syllable-timed — having a rhythm in which syllables are approximately equal in duration and thus tend to follow each other at regular intervals of time.
  • tailor's dummy — a mannequin used to help tailor or fit clothes
  • trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • uncrystallized — lacking a final form
  • undistractedly — in an undistracted manner
  • unrestrictedly — in an unrestricted manner
  • yield strength — the stress necessary to produce a given inelastic strain in a material.
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