14-letter words containing l, a, y, o, r
- 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
- throw a wobbly — to become suddenly very agitated or angry
- 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.
- transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
- transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- 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.
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trial attorney — a lawyer who is involved in court cases
- tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.
- tropologically — in a way which uses figurative language
- 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
- unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
- unconciliatory — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
- uncontrollably — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- unhypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
- unrecognizably — in an unrecognizable or unidentifiable manner
- unreconcilably — in an unreconcilable manner
- unromantically — in an unromantic manner
- vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
- vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
- vibratory mill — A vibratory mill is a machine for grinding something, in which the feed and grinding medium are between two surfaces which vibrate against each other.
- virtual memory — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
- volumetrically — of or relating to measurement by volume.
- voluntary work — unpaid employment for a cause
- volunteer army — a military force composed entirely of enlistees.
- walk away from — to outdistance easily; defeat handily
- walkaround pay — extra pay earned by an employee for accompanying an official inspector on a plant tour or around a job site.
- wall pellitory — pellitory (sense 1)
- wholeheartedly — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- xerophytically — As a xerophyte.
- xylopyrography — the technique of making a picture or design on wood using a hot iron or another heated instrument
- xylotypography — a type of printing using wooden blocks
- yard-long bean — asparagus bean.
- yekaterinoslav — a former name of Dnepropetrovsk.
- yellow warbler — a small American warbler, Dendroica petechia, the male of which has yellow plumage streaked with brown on the underparts.
- yttrotantalite — a mineral, tantalite and niobate of yttrium and various elements, as iron, and cerium, occurring in the form of brown-black crystals.