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14-letter words containing i, n, l, e, r

  • irreconcilably — incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
  • irresoluteness — The state of being irresolute.
  • irresponsibles — Plural form of irresponsible.
  • irrestrainable — That cannot be restrained.
  • isentropically — in an isentropic manner
  • isle of france — Île-de-France
  • isometric-line — isometrics, isometric exercise (def 1).
  • italian clover — crimson clover.
  • jeffersonville — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • jet propulsion — the propulsion of a body by its reaction to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
  • journal intime — a personal or private diary.
  • junior college — a collegiate institution offering courses only through the first one or two years of college instruction and granting a certificate of title instead of a degree.
  • junior counsel — a body of barristers who are lower in rank than the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel, and who plead outside the bar in the court.
  • juvenile court — a law court having jurisdiction over youths, generally of less than 18 years.
  • kaiserslautern — a city in S Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany.
  • kelp greenling — a food and game fish, Hexagrammos decagrammus, living among the kelp along the Pacific coast of North America.
  • kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
  • kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
  • kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
  • keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
  • kidney failure — loss of renal function
  • kiss principle — /kis' prin'si-pl/ Keep It Simple, Stupid. A maxim often invoked when discussing design to fend off creeping featurism and control complexity of development. Possibly related to the marketroid maxim on sales presentations, "Keep It Short and Simple". See also Occam's Razor.
  • knee-trembling — very exciting
  • knight templar — Templar.
  • l-asparaginase — an enzyme that destroys asparagine, a nonessential amino acid needed as a nutrient by rapidly growing cells: used in treating leukemia
  • lake nicaragua — a lake in SW Nicaragua, separated from the Pacific by an isthmus 19 km (12 miles) wide: the largest lake in Central America. Area: 8264 sq km (3191 sq miles)
  • lake trasimene — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria: the largest lake in central Italy; scene of Hannibal's victory over the Romans in 217 bc. Area: 128 sq km (49 sq miles)
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • landing-waiter — landwaiter.
  • lantern pinion — a wheel, used like a pinion, consisting essentially of two parallel disks or heads whose peripheries are connected by a series of bars that engage with the teeth of another wheel.
  • lap microphone — a small microphone that may be clipped to the speaker's lapel, pocket, or the like.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • 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.
  • lateralisation — Alternative spelling of lateralization.
  • lateralization — functional specialization of the brain, with some skills, as language, occurring primarily in the left hemisphere and others, as the perception of visual and spatial relationships, occurring primarily in the right hemisphere.
  • lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
  • latin american — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
  • lattice energy — chemistry: strength of bonds holding ionic solid together
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • laurent series — a power series in which the negative as well as the positive powers appear.
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • leading rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable but junior to that of a corporal in the army
  • learner driver — a person who is learning to drive
  • learning curve — Education. a graphic representation of progress in learning measured against the time required to achieve mastery.
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • leibniz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
  • leisure centre — A leisure centre is a large public building containing different facilities for leisure activities, such as a sports hall, a swimming pool, and rooms for meetings.
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