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14-letter words containing l, p, s

  • exposure value — the quantity of light hitting a photographic film, as determined by aperture values and shutter speed
  • expressibility — The quality of being expressible.
  • expressionless — (of a person's face or voice) not conveying any emotion; unemotional.
  • extrapolations — Plural form of extrapolation.
  • eye specialist — ophthalmologist
  • eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
  • false position — a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests
  • false positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
  • false-positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
  • fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • fetal position — a bodily posture resembling that of the fetus in the uterus, in which the body is curled with head and limbs drawn in, sometimes assumed in states of fear or emotional withdrawal.
  • field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
  • field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
  • file separator — (character)   (FS) ASCII character 28.
  • filiopietistic — of or relating to reverence of forebears or tradition, especially if carried to excess.
  • fingerspelling — the communication in sign language of a word or other expression by rendering its written form letter by letter in a manual alphabet.
  • 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
  • flanders poppy — corn poppy.
  • 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.
  • flashing point — flash point (def 1).
  • flat-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
  • flip one's lid — a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
  • floor polisher — an electrical appliance used for polishing floors
  • fluid pressure — the pressure exerted by a fluid, directly proportional to the specific gravity at any point and to the height of the fluid above the point.
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • fool's-parsley — an Old World fetid, poisonous plant, Aethusa cynapium, resembling parsley.
  • foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
  • football pools — If you do the football pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing the results of football matches.
  • fowl paralysis — Marek's disease.
  • full professor — professor (def 1).
  • galactic poles — either of the two opposite points on the celestial sphere that are farthest north and south of the Milky Way.
  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • galactopoiesis — increasing the secretion of milk.
  • gallinas point — a cape in NE Colombia: the northernmost point of South America
  • galvanoplastic — pertaining to reproduction by electrotypy.
  • galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
  • galveston plan — commission plan.
  • genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
  • goodfellowship — cheerful company
  • gooseneck lamp — a desk lamp having a flexible shaft or stem.
  • gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
  • gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
  • gyroscopically — Using a gyroscope.
  • hair-splitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
  • hale telescope — the 200-inch (508-cm) reflector at the Palomar Observatory.
  • haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
  • happenstantial — Being or relating to happenstance.
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