14-letter words containing s, i, t, o, l
- licorice stick — a clarinet.
- 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.
- lipogrammatism — the practice or art of writing lipograms
- lipogrammatist — a person who writes lipograms
- liquidationist — pertaining to or promoting a theory of economics which holds that governments should not interfere in a recession
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- 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.
- liturgiologist — a person who studies liturgiology
- living history — any of various activities involving the re-enactment of historical events or the recreation of living conditions of the past
- local politics — political activity at local level, as opposed to national politics
- logical syntax — syntactics.
- logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
- 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.
- lord spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.
- lotus position — a standard seated posture for yoga, with legs intertwined, left foot over right thigh, and right foot over left thigh.
- louis quatorze — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the late 17th century, characterized by increasingly classicizing tendencies, and by an emphasis on dignity rather than comfort.
- love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
- low-resolution — of or relating to CRTs, printers, or other visual output devices that produce images that are not sharply defined (opposed to high-resolution).
- lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
- luminous paint — paint containing a phosphor that emits visible light when irradiated with ultraviolet light.
- lyophilisation — Alternative spelling of lyophilization.
- lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
- machicolations — Plural form of machicolation.
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- macrobiologist — One who studies macrobiology.
- magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
- medicalisation — Alternative spelling of medicalization.
- memorabilities — Plural form of memorability.
- mephistopheles — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- meretriciously — In a meretricious manner.
- metallokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control metals.
- meteorologists — Plural form of meteorologist.
- methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
- methodologists — Plural form of methodologist.
- meticulousness — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- metoposcopical — relating to metoposcopy
- metrosexuality — The quality of being metrosexual.
- microbiologist — the branch of biology dealing with the structure, function, uses, and modes of existence of microscopic organisms.
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
- microsatellite — A miniature satellite.
- microsoft mail — (messaging, tool) (MS Mail) A Microsoft Windows electronic mail program.
- militarisation — The process by which something such as an area of land or a function of government becomes dependent on or subordinate to the military, or military in its attributes or practices.
- mineralisation — Alternative spelling of mineralization.
- misallocations — Plural form of misallocation.
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- misapplication — to make a wrong application or use of.