14-letter words containing l, a, y, o, r
- rallying point — A rallying point is a place, event, or person that people are attracted to as a symbol of a political group or ideal.
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- read-only user — (jargon) Describes a luser who uses computers almost exclusively for reading Usenet, bulletin boards, and/or electronic mail, rather than writing code or purveying useful information. See twink, terminal junkie, lurker.
- reconciliatory — tending to reconcile.
- record library — a collection of records belonging to an individual or an organization, for people to borrow usually without payment
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- recreationally — of or relating to recreation: recreational facilities in the park.
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- relocatability — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
- rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
- 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
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- royal canadian — in the service of the Canadian federal government and the British monarch: Royal Canadian Air Force; Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- royal coachman — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
- royal marriage — a meld of the king and queen of trumps, as in pinochle. Compare marriage (def 9).
- royal standard — a flag bearing the arms of the British sovereign, flown only when she (or he) is present
- sacrilegiously — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sacrococcygeal — relating to the sacrum and the coccyx
- salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
- sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
- satisfactorily — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- school library — a library within a school where teachers and students have access to books and other resources
- secondary cell — storage cell.
- secondary wall — the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
- self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
- seward's folly — the purchase of Alaska in 1867, through the negotiations of Secretary of State W. H. Seward.
- sinistrorsally — in a sinistrorsal manner
- slaughterously — murderously
- slurry reactor — A slurry reactor is a reactor in which contact is achieved by suspending a solid in a liquid.
- social history — a view of historical events seen in terms of social trends
- solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
- solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
- solvay process — a process for manufacturing sodium carbonate whereby a concentrated solution of sodium chloride is saturated with ammonia, carbon dioxide is passed through it, and the product is calcined.
- south-easterly — A south-easterly point, area, or direction is to the south-east or towards the south-east.
- spectra yellow — a vivid yellow color.
- sphaerocrystal — a spherical crystalline mass
- st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
- stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
- sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
- supportability — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
- sycamore maple — a maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, of Europe and western Asia, having gray bark and opposite, lobed leaves: grown as a shade tree.
- synchronically — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
- 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.
- tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
- thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.