14-letter words containing s, i, n, g, l, e
- hot gospelling — aggressive evangelizing of religious belief
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
- impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
- in high places — People in high places are people who have powerful and influential positions in a government, society, or organization.
- in one's glory — at one's best, happiest, etc.
- in single file — one behind another
- ingloriousness — The state of being inglorious.
- inland passage — Inside Passage
- insanely great — (Macintosh community, from Steve Jobs; also BSD Unix people via Bill Joy) Something so incredibly elegant that it is imaginable only to someone possessing the most puissant of hacker-natures.
- insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
- intelligencers — Plural form of intelligencer.
- intelligentsia — Intellectuals or highly educated people as a group, especially when regarded as possessing culture and political influence.
- interlanguages — Plural form of interlanguage.
- interreligious — existing or communicating between different religions.
- intersegmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
- intransigently — In an intransigent manner.
- judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
- killing fields — People sometimes refer to a battlefield or a place where many people have been killed as that place's killing fields.
- king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
- king's english — standard, educated, or correct English speech or usage, especially of England.
- kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
- l-asparaginase — an enzyme that destroys asparagine, a nonessential amino acid needed as a nutrient by rapidly growing cells: used in treating leukemia
- 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 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
- 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
- level crossing — grade crossing.
- licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- lignocellulose — any of various compounds of lignin and cellulose comprising the essential part of woody cell walls.
- 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.
- listening post — Military. a post or position, as in advance of a defensive line, established for the purpose of listening to detect the enemy's movements.
- locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
- lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
- lovingkindness — kindness or affectionate behavior resulting from or expressing love
- lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
- 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