14-letter words containing s, i, g, n, a, l
- intelligentsia — Intellectuals or highly educated people as a group, especially when regarded as possessing culture and political influence.
- interlanguages — Plural form of interlanguage.
- intersegmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
- intransigently — In an intransigent manner.
- island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- jardin anglais — a landscape garden having winding paths and irregular planting.
- jingoistically — (manner) In a jingoistic manner.
- judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
- l-asparaginase — an enzyme that destroys asparagine, a nonessential amino acid needed as a nutrient by rapidly growing cells: used in treating leukemia
- lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
- lagoon islands — a former name of Tuvalu.
- lake nipissing — a lake in central Canada, in E Ontario between the Ottawa River and Georgian Bay. Area: 855 sq km (330 sq miles)
- landing lights — aircraft lights used when landing
- landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
- landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
- lapsus linguae — a slip of the tongue.
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- last knockings — the final stage of a period or activity
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
- lead poisoning — Pathology. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
- leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- legitimateness — The quality of being legitimate.
- legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
- lemongrass oil — an aromatic oil made from lemon grass and used in aromatherapy, as a pesticide, and as a preservative
- licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
- logical syntax — syntactics.
- lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
- luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
- lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
- magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
- manual testing — (testing) That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
- maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
- marginal hacks — (humour) Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
- metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
- mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
- mineral spring — a spring of water that contains a significant amount of dissolved minerals.
- miscalculating — Present participle of miscalculate.
- misclassifying — Present participle of misclassify.