14-letter words containing l, e, t, o, s
- to smell a rat — If you smell a rat, you begin to suspect or realize that something is wrong in a particular situation, for example that someone is trying to deceive you or harm you.
- to strike gold — If you strike gold, you find, do, or produce something that brings you a lot of money or success.
- to sweat blood — If you say that someone sweats blood trying to do something, you are emphasizing that they try very hard to do it.
- tongue-lashing — severe scolding
- tortoise plant — elephant's-foot.
- total pressure — Total pressure is the total of static pressure p, dynamic pressure q, and gravitational head.
- trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
- transcorporeal — of the nature of the physical body; bodily.
- transit lounge — a waiting room at an international airport used mainly by passengers transferring from one flight to another without presenting themselves to customs or immigration officials
- 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.
- tridimensional — having three dimensions.
- trinitrocresol — a yellow, crystalline compound, C 7 H 5 N 3 O 7 , used in high explosives.
- tripersonalism — the doctrine of three persons making up the Trinity
- tripersonalist — someone who believes in the Trinity
- tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.
- troubleshooted — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- troubleshooter — a person with special skill in resolving disputes, impasses, etc., as in business, national, or international affairs: a diplomatic troubleshooter in the Middle East.
- try one's luck — to attempt something that is uncertain
- two-time loser — a person who has been sentenced to prison twice, especially for a major crime in a state where a third sentence is mandatory life imprisonment.
- two-toed sloth — either of two sloths of the genus Choloepus, having two claws on the forelimbs and three on the hind limbs, including C. didactylus and C. hoffmanni.
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- ultroneousness — spontaneity; free will
- unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
- uncollectables — things that are not collectable
- unconsolidated — brought together into a single whole.
- undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
- unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
- unmentionables — not mentionable; inappropriate, unfit, or improper for mention, as in polite conversation; unspeakable.
- unpoeticalness — the quality, state, or characteristic of being unpoetic
- unquestionable — not open to question; beyond doubt or dispute; indisputable; undeniable; certain: an unquestionable fact.
- unquestionably — not open to question; beyond doubt or dispute; indisputable; undeniable; certain: an unquestionable fact.
- unsurmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- vegetable soup — soup made with vegetables
- ventilationist — of, relating to, or advocating the ventilation of emotions: a ventilationist approach to dealing with anger.
- vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
- vitellogenesis — the process by which the yolk is formed and accumulated in the ovum.
- volksdeutscher — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
- walk-in closet — a closet that is large enough to walk around in.
- waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
- waste disposal — A waste disposal or a waste disposal unit is a small machine in a kitchen sink that chops up vegetable waste.
- watercolourist — An artist who paints watercolours.
- well-supported — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
- west glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 315 sq. mi. (815 sq. km).
- west hollywood — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- western omelet — an omelet prepared with diced green peppers, onions, and ham.
- whistle blower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.