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14-letter words containing l, a, r, y

  • tachygraphical — characteristic of tachygraphy
  • tailgate party — A tailgate party is a social gathering at which food is served from or near a vehicle, especially in a parking lot before a sports game.
  • tailor's dummy — a mannequin used to help tailor or fit clothes
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • territoriality — territorial quality, condition, or status.
  • tertiary color — a color, as brown, produced by mixing two secondary colors.
  • testamentarily — in a testamentary manner
  • tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
  • tetraethyllead — a colorless, oily, water-insoluble, poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5) 4 Pb, used as an antiknock agent in gasoline.
  • thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
  • the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
  • the real mccoy — the genuine thing or person as promised, stated, or implied (usually preceded by the or the real): Those other paintings are copies, but this one is the McCoy.
  • the royal mail — the national postal service of the United Kingdom
  • thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
  • thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
  • three-act play — a dramatic production such as play or film which is divided into three acts or sections
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • throw a wobbly — to become suddenly very agitated or angry
  • tintinnabulary — of bells or the ringing of bells
  • to play truant — If a pupil plays truant, he or she stays away from school without permission.
  • to wax lyrical — If you say that someone, for example, waxes lyrical or waxes indignant about a subject, you mean that they talk about it in an enthusiastic or indignant way.
  • traditionality — of or relating to tradition.
  • trafficability — the condition of soil or terrain with regard to its being traveled over, as by people, vehicles, or machinery.
  • trans-physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • transplanetary — farther from the sun than a given planet.
  • transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
  • transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
  • transsexuality — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
  • transversality — the state of being transversal
  • traveler's-joy — a woody vine, Clematis vitalba, of the buttercup family, native to Europe and northern Africa, having long-plumed fruit and slightly fragrant, white flowers.
  • treasury bills — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
  • trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • trial attorney — a lawyer who is involved in court cases
  • trimethylamine — a colourless, flammable liquid with a strong, fishy odour
  • tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.
  • triphenylamine — a molecule consisting of a nitrogen atom with three phenyl groups attached to it
  • tropologically — in a way which uses figurative language
  • trumpet player — a person who plays the trumpet
  • trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
  • tunny emulator — (hardware, cryptography)   A special-purpose computer designed at Bletchley Park (UK) based upon the reverse engineering of the Lorenz Cypher. The Lorenz Cypher was used by the German army to encrypt high command orders for transmission via teleprinter (the Enigma was a field-use cypher). Once the key to a message was discovered (by the computer Colossus) the Tunny machine would be set to decrypt the message. The process took about four days from intercept to printout. The original Tunny machine was built about 1943 and scrapped after the war. In 2011 a working model was re-built at Bletchley Park where it is on display.
  • ultra-royalist — a supporter or adherent of a king or royal government, especially in times of rebellion or civil war.
  • ultramicrotomy — the practice of using an ultramicrotome
  • unalterability — the state or quality of not being alterable or not being able to be changed
  • unartificially — in an unartificial manner
  • unattractively — in an unattractive manner
  • unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
  • unconciliatory — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
  • uncontrollably — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
  • uncrystallized — lacking a final form
  • undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
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