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

  • 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.
  • exclusion zone — law: forbidden entry
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
  • expostulations — Plural form of expostulation.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
  • fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
  • family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
  • fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
  • felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
  • 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.
  • final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
  • 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
  • flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
  • fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
  • 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.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • fulfil oneself — to achieve one's potential or desires
  • full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
  • fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
  • futuna islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific Ocean belonging to the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
  • futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
  • garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • garlic sausage — sausage meat flavoured with garlic
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
  • gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • gluteus medius — the muscle of the buttocks lying between the gluteus maximus and the gluteus minimus, involved in the abduction of the thigh.
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • guided missile — an aerial missile, as a rocket, steered during its flight by radio signals, clockwork controls, etc.
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
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