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14-letter words containing l, y, s, e, r

  • control system — a system that senses, switches, or regulates another system
  • courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
  • courtesy title — any of several titles having no legal significance, such as those borne by the children of peers
  • cross-ply tire — bias-ply tire.
  • crystal defect — defect (def 3).
  • crystal palace — a building of glass and iron designed by Joseph Paxton to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. Erected in Hyde Park, London, it was moved to Sydenham (1852–53): destroyed by fire in 1936
  • crystal system — any of six, or sometimes seven, classifications of crystals depending on their symmetry. The classes are cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic. Sometimes an additional system, trigonal, is distinguished, although this is usually included in the hexagonal system
  • crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
  • crystallizable — That can be crystallized.
  • cyberthrillers — Plural form of cyberthriller.
  • cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
  • cylinder press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
  • decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
  • delivery suite — the area in a hospital where babies are delivered
  • dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
  • describability — The quality of being describable.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • discernability — The state of being discernable.
  • discernibility — The state or quality of being discernible.
  • discerpibility — the quality of being able to be discerped
  • disconcertedly — In a disconcerted manner.
  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • discretionally — At one's discretion.
  • discriminately — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
  • dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
  • dispersibility — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
  • dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
  • dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
  • dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
  • earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
  • earsplittingly — In an earsplitting way; very loudly.
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • effervescently — effervescing; bubbling.
  • electrosensory — Of or pertaining to the ability of a biological organism to perceive electrical impulses.
  • electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
  • embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • enterprisingly — In an enterprising manner.
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • exasperatingly — In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
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