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15-letter words containing l, y, e

  • temperamentally — having or exhibiting a strongly marked, individual temperament.
  • tensor analysis — the branch of mathematics dealing with the calculus of tensors, especially the study of properties that are unaffected by a change of coordinate system.
  • tertiary colour — a colour formed by mixing two secondary colours
  • tetraethyl lead — a colorless, oily, water-insoluble, poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5) 4 Pb, used as an antiknock agent in gasoline.
  • tetramethyllead — a colorless liquid, (CH 3) 4 Pb, insoluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol and benzene, used as an antiknock agent in gasoline.
  • thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the early hours — If something happens in the early hours, in the small hours, or in the wee hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the holy family — the infant Jesus, Mary, and St Joseph
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • thioallyl ether — allyl sulfide.
  • to fly the coop — If you say that someone has flown the coop, you mean that they have left a place or situation that limits their freedom.
  • to fly the flag — If you fly the flag, you show that you are proud of your country, or that you support a particular cause, especially when you are in a foreign country or when few other people do.
  • to lead the way — If you lead the way along a particular route, you go along it in front of someone in order to show them where to go.
  • to my knowledge — as far as I am aware
  • to play footsie — If someone plays footsie with you, they touch your feet with their own feet, for example under a table, often as a playful way of expressing their romantic or sexual feelings towards you.
  • total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
  • transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • traveller's joy — a ranunculaceous Old World climbing plant, Clematis vitalba, having white flowers and heads of feathery plumed fruits
  • tray classifier — A tray classifier is a tank for leaching from a dispersed solid, in which pulp at the bottom of the tank is raked (= moved to the exit) while solvent is forced toward the bottom of the tank.
  • trial by battle — a method of trying an accused person or of settling a dispute by a personal fight between the two parties involved or, in some circumstances, their permitted champions, in the presence of a judge. It was introduced to England after the Norman Conquest and abolished in 1819
  • tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
  • tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
  • tutorial system — a system of education, especially in some colleges, in which instruction is given personally by tutors, who also act as general advisers of a small group of students in their charge.
  • tweet you later — (on the Twitter website) goodbye; see you later
  • u-shaped valley — a steep-sided valley caused by glacial erosion
  • ulysses s grant — Cary (Archibald Leach) 1904–86, U.S. actor, born in England.
  • umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
  • unacceptability — capable or worthy of being accepted.
  • unadulteratedly — in an unadulterated or genuine manner
  • unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
  • unaesthetically — offensive to the aesthetic sense; lacking in beauty or sensory appeal; unpleasant, as an object, design, arrangement, etc.: an unaesthetic combination of colors.
  • unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
  • unanticipatedly — in an unanticipated or unexpected manner
  • unceremoniously — discourteously abrupt; hasty; rude: He made an unceremonious departure in the middle of my speech.
  • unchallengeably — in a way that cannot be challenged; in an unchallengeable manner
  • uncomplementary — forming a complement; completing.
  • uncomplimentary — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
  • uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • under your belt — If you have something under your belt, you have already achieved it or done it.
  • underemployment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
  • understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
  • unintentionally — not intentional or deliberate: an unintentional omission from the list.
  • uninterestingly — in a way that is not interesting
  • unintermittedly — in an unintermitted manner
  • uninterruptedly — in a manner that is not broken, discontinued, or hindered
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