14-letter words containing l, y, o, n, a
- secondary wall — the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
- self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
- shabby-looking — appearing old and in bad condition
- shoo-fly plant — apple of Peru.
- 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.
- sinistrorsally — in a sinistrorsal manner
- skiing holiday — a holiday taken (esp to somewhere that it snows) for the purpose of going skiing
- 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.
- st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
- stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
- 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.
- sycophantishly — in a sycophantish manner
- synchronically — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
- telephonically — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
- thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
- to play truant — If a pupil plays truant, he or she stays away from school without permission.
- traditionality — of or relating to tradition.
- transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
- transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- 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
- unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
- unconciliatory — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
- uncongeniality — the condition of being uncongenial
- unconscionably — not guided by conscience; unscrupulous.
- uncontrollably — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- undogmatically — in an undogmatic manner
- unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
- unhypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
- 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
- unromantically — in an unromantic manner
- untouchability — the quality or condition of being an untouchable, ascribed in the Vedic tradition to persons of low caste or to persons excluded from the caste system.
- up one's alley — a passage, as through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the street to backyards, garages, etc.
- vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
- vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
- voluntary work — unpaid employment for a cause
- volunteer army — a military force composed entirely of enlistees.
- walkaround pay — extra pay earned by an employee for accompanying an official inspector on a plant tour or around a job site.
- window display — an arrangement of items in a shop window
- wyoming valley — a valley in NE Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River: Indian massacre 1778.
- xenophobically — relating to or exhibiting fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.
- yard-long bean — asparagus bean.