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14-letter words containing s, i, l

  • anticyclolysis — the weakening or extinction of an anticyclone.
  • antifederalism — Alternative form of anti-federalism.
  • antifederalist — a person who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in 1789 and thereafter allied with Thomas Jefferson's Antifederal Party, which opposed extension of the powers of the federal Government
  • antifilibuster — a person or method in opposition to filibustering
  • antihistorical — opposed to history or to methods which emphasize or require historical study
  • antihomosexual — opposed to homosexual people and behaviour
  • antiliberalism — a political ideology opposed to liberalism
  • antilogarithms — Plural form of antilogarithm.
  • antimicrobials — Plural form of antimicrobial.
  • antimilitarism — the opposition to militarism or to war between states
  • antimilitarist — opposed to militarism
  • antimonopolist — opposed to monopoly
  • antineoplastic — acting against tumours
  • antiphlogistic — of or relating to the prevention or alleviation of inflammation
  • antiphrastical — the use of a word in a sense opposite to its proper meaning.
  • antiprotozoals — Plural form of antiprotozoal.
  • antiradicalism — the opposition to radicalism
  • antiscriptural — opposed to or contradicting scripture
  • antiseptically — with the aid of antiseptics.
  • antisyphilitic — acting against syphilis
  • apheliotropism — a tendency of certain plants to turn away from the sun; negative heliotropism
  • aphoristically — in an aphoristic manner
  • apocalypticism — the belief in apocalyptic prophecy
  • aposematically — in an aposematic manner
  • apple islander — a native or inhabitant of Tasmania
  • apple polisher — a sycophant; toady
  • apple-polisher — to curry favor with someone, especially in an obsequious or flattering manner.
  • applicableness — applying or capable of being applied; relevant; suitable; appropriate: an applicable rule; a solution that is applicable to the problem.
  • apprehensively — uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
  • apsidal motion — the rotation of the major axis of an eccentric orbit in the plane of the orbit.
  • aquifoliaceous — related to the Aquifoliaceae family of plants, the only living genus of which is the holly (Ilex) genus
  • archaeologists — Plural form of archaeologist.
  • archiepiscopal — of or associated with an archbishop
  • aristocratical — aristocratic
  • arrivals board — a board showing the time of arrival of planes, trains or buses
  • art historical — of or relating to the history of art or to its study: art historical documents on 16th-century painting.
  • art-historical — of or concerned with the history of art
  • arthroplasties — Plural form of arthroplasty.
  • articulateness — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
  • artificialness — the condition of being non-natural, unnatural or spurious
  • as big as life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
  • as you like it — a comedy (1599?) by Shakespeare.
  • asiatic beetle — a Japanese scarabaeid beetle, Anomala orientalis, introduced into Hawaii and the northeastern US: a serious pest of sugar cane and cereal crops because it destroys the roots
  • assaultiveness — the condition of being assaultive
  • assembly point — a designated place where people have been told to wait after evacuating a building in the event of a fire or other emergency
  • asseveratingly — in an asseverating or affirming manner
  • assimilability — the capacity to be assimilated or made similar
  • assisted place — a place at a private school reserved for a pupil from a family with a low income, with the fees paid by the government
  • associableness — The state or quality of being associable.
  • astrobiologist — a person who studies astrobiology
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