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

  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • hypersomnolent — sleepy; drowsy.
  • hypersonically — In a hypersonic way.
  • hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
  • impersonalised — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
  • impersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of impersonalize.
  • impressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
  • incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
  • incorporealism — Existence without a body or material form; immateriality.
  • interpolations — Plural form of interpolation.
  • introspectible — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
  • irresponsibles — Plural form of irresponsible.
  • isentropically — in an isentropic manner
  • jet propulsion — the propulsion of a body by its reaction to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
  • 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.
  • laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
  • lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
  • leopard's-bane — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, of Europe and Asia, having alternate, usually clasping leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
  • lepidopterists — Plural form of lepidopterist.
  • leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
  • lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • locker-lampsonFrederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
  • locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
  • lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
  • lords temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
  • macrocephalous — Having a large head.
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • marsupial mole — a burrowing Australian marsupial of the genus Notoryctes, resembling a common mole in form and behavior.
  • massage parlor — a commercial establishment providing massages.
  • megasporophyll — a sporophyll producing megasporangia only.
  • melanospermous — having dark spores, as certain seaweeds.
  • microcephalous — Microcephalic.
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
  • microspherical — relating to or designating a microsphere
  • morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
  • multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • multiple store — chain store.
  • multiprocessor — parallel processing
  • musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
  • myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
  • nasopharyngeal — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
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