14-letter words containing l, o, y, a, e
- 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
- semiofficially — in a semiofficial manner
- semiologically — in a semiological manner; in a way that pertains to semiology
- seward's folly — the purchase of Alaska in 1867, through the negotiations of Secretary of State W. H. Seward.
- silicon valley — the area in northern California, southwest of San Francisco in the Santa Clara valley region, where many of the high-technology design and manufacturing companies in the semiconductor industry are concentrated.
- simultaneously — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- slaughterously — murderously
- slurry reactor — A slurry reactor is a reactor in which contact is achieved by suspending a solid in a liquid.
- snowflake baby — a baby born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in-vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor
- sockeye salmon — an important food fish, Oncorhynchus nerka, inhabiting the North Pacific.
- 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.
- somoza debayle — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1925–80, Nicaraguan army officer, businessman, and political leader: president 1967–72, 1974–79 (brother of Luis Somoza Debayle).
- 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
- subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
- sycamore maple — a maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, of Europe and western Asia, having gray bark and opposite, lobed leaves: grown as a shade tree.
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- telephonically — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
- telescopically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
- territoriality — territorial quality, condition, or status.
- tertiary color — a color, as brown, produced by mixing two secondary colors.
- tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
- 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
- thymelaeaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Thymelaeaceae, a family of trees and shrubs having tough acrid bark and simple leaves: includes spurge laurel, leatherwood, and mezereon
- 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.
- 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.
- unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
- uncongeniality — the condition of being uncongenial
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
- unquestionably — not open to question; beyond doubt or dispute; indisputable; undeniable; certain: an unquestionable fact.
- unrecognizably — in an unrecognizable or unidentifiable manner
- unreconcilably — in an unreconcilable manner
- up one's alley — a passage, as through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the street to backyards, garages, etc.
- vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
- 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.