14-letter words containing s, i, u
- leucocytolysis — the destruction of leucocytes
- liability suit — a claim for damages based on the plaintiff's claim of the defendant's liability
- libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
- license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
- licentiousness — sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
- lieutenantship — the office of a lieutenant
- life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
- lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
- light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
- light the fuse — If someone or something lights the fuse of a particular situation or activity, they suddenly get it started.
- 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.
- limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
- linear measure — any system for measuring length.
- linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
- liquid compass — wet compass.
- liquid crystal — a liquid having certain crystalline characteristics, especially different optical properties in different directions when exposed to an electric field.
- liquid measure — the system of units of capacity ordinarily used in measuring liquid commodities, as milk or oil. English system: 4 gills = 1 pint; 2 pints = 1 quart; 4 quarts = 1 gallon. Metric system: 1000 milliliters = 1 liter; 1000 liters = 1 kiloliter (= 1 cubic meter).
- liquidationist — pertaining to or promoting a theory of economics which holds that governments should not interfere in a recession
- liquor license — a licence that allows the proprietor of a store, bar, etc, to sell alcohol
- little russian — former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.
- liturgiologist — a person who studies liturgiology
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- livia drusilla — 58 bc–29 ad, Roman noblewoman: wife (from 39 bc) of Emperor Augustus and mother of Emperor Tiberius
- logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- loquaciousness — talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest.
- 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 napoleon — (Louis Napoleon; Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte) [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1808–73, president of France 1848–52, emperor of France 1852–70 (nephew of Napoleon I).
- louis philippe — ("Citizen King") 1773–1850, king of France 1830–48.
- 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.
- 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).
- lower silurian — Ordovician
- lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
- lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
- luminous paint — paint containing a phosphor that emits visible light when irradiated with ultraviolet light.
- 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.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- lunatic asylum — psychiatric hospital
- lupus vulgaris — a rare form of tuberculosis of the skin, characterized by brownish tubercles that often heal slowly and leave scars.
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
- madison avenue — a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.
- magic mushroom — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- manual testing — (testing) That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.