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14-letter words containing s, i, l, u, r, e

  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • delivery suite — the area in a hospital where babies are delivered
  • delta aquarids — either of two collections of meteors comprising meteor showers having their apparent origin in the constellation Aquarius and visible either in early May (Eta Aquarids) or late July (Delta Aquarids)
  • despiritualize — to render less spiritual; to remove the spiritual character of; to make more material
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • disequilibrium — lack of equilibrium; imbalance.
  • disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
  • diverticulitis — inflammation of one or more diverticula, characterized by abdominal pain, fever, and changes in bowel movements.
  • diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
  • electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
  • field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
  • field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • first language — mother tongue
  • first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • 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.
  • garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
  • garlic sausage — sausage meat flavoured with garlic
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • harlequinesque — in the manner of a harlequin.
  • health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hypersexualise — Alternative spelling of hypersexualize.
  • hypersexuality — unusually or excessively active in or concerned with sexual matters.
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