14-letter words containing i, l, e, s
- louis napoleon — (Louis Napoleon; Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte) [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1808–73, president of France 1848–52, emperor of France 1852–70 (nephew of Napoleon I).
- louis philippe — ("Citizen King") 1773–1850, king of France 1830–48.
- louis quatorze — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the late 17th century, characterized by increasingly classicizing tendencies, and by an emphasis on dignity rather than comfort.
- love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
- lovingkindness — kindness or affectionate behavior resulting from or expressing love
- low-resolution — of or relating to CRTs, printers, or other visual output devices that produce images that are not sharply defined (opposed to high-resolution).
- lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- lower silurian — Ordovician
- lowside window — (in medieval English churches) a window set low in the outside wall, permitting the interior to be seen from the outside.
- lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
- lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
- luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
- lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
- magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
- majesticalness — the glory or majesty of someone or something
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- manual testing — (testing) That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
- maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
- mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- marsupial mole — a burrowing Australian marsupial of the genus Notoryctes, resembling a common mole in form and behavior.
- mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- material cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- mayonnaiselike — Resembling mayonnaise.
- mcclure strait — an arm of the Beaufort Sea between Banks Island in the south and Melville Island and Eglinton Island to the north, in the Northwest Territories, Canada. About 170 miles (270 km) long and 60 miles (90 km) wide.
- meadow salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.
- meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- mechanicalness — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being mechanical.
- mechanicsville — a village in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle 1862.
- medical ethics — the code of behaviour considered to be correct for members of the medical profession
- medical school — university where medical degrees are taught
- medicalisation — Alternative spelling of medicalization.
- medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
- megascopically — macroscopically
- melamine resin — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the interaction of melamine and formaldehyde: used chiefly as adhesives for laminated materials and as coatings for paper, plastics, and textiles.
- melancholiness — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- memorabilities — Plural form of memorability.
- mensural music — polyphonic music of the 13th century in which each note has a strictly determined value.
- mental disease — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
- mental illness — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
- mephistopheles — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- mercalli scale — a measure of earthquake intensity with 12 divisions ranging from I (felt by very few) to XII (total destruction).