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14-letter words containing l, e, t, r, p, s

  • elephant's-ear — any aroid plant of the genus Colocasia, of tropical Asia and Polynesia, having very large heart-shaped leaves: grown for ornament and for their edible tubers
  • ellesmere port — a port in NW England, in NW Cheshire on the Mersey estuary and Manchester Ship Canal. Pop: 66 265 (2001)
  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
  • enterprisingly — In an enterprising manner.
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
  • exasperatingly — In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
  • exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
  • explorationist — a person involved in exploration, esp of oil, gas, etc
  • expressibility — The quality of being expressible.
  • extrapolations — Plural form of extrapolation.
  • file separator — (character)   (FS) ASCII character 28.
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • flat-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
  • genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
  • gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
  • gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
  • herpetologists — Plural form of herpetologist.
  • heterophyllous — having different kinds of leaves on the same plant.
  • heteroplasties — Plural form of heteroplasty.
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • hypercatalexis — the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.
  • hyperrealistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
  • hypersexuality — unusually or excessively active in or concerned with sexual matters.
  • hypersomnolent — sleepy; drowsy.
  • hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • impressibility — The quality of being impressible.
  • indiscerptible — not discerptible; indivisible.
  • inseparability — incapable of being separated, parted, or disjoined: inseparable companions.
  • instant replay — Also called, British, action replay. Television. the recording and immediate rebroadcasting of a segment of a live television broadcast, especially of a sports event: an instant replay of the touchdown pass. a segment recorded and immediately rebroadcast.
  • insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
  • interpolations — Plural form of interpolation.
  • interrupt list — [MS-DOS] The list of all known software interrupt calls (both documented and undocumented) for IBM PCs and compatibles, maintained and made available for free redistribution by Ralf Brown <[email protected]>. As of late 1992, it had grown to approximately two megabytes in length.
  • introspectible — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
  • irrespectively — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
  • isentropically — in an isentropic manner
  • j/psi particle — the lightest of the psi particles, the first particle to be discovered that contains a charmed quark.
  • jet propulsion — the propulsion of a body by its reaction to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
  • kapellmeisters — Plural form of kapellmeister.
  • kastrop-rauxel — Castrop-Rauxel.
  • 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
  • kleptoparasite — A bird, insect, or other animal that habitually robs animals of other species of food.
  • late-type star — any star with a surface temperature below that of the sun, of spectral type K, M, C, or S
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
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