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

  • lasciviousness — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • laurent series — a power series in which the negative as well as the positive powers appear.
  • league leaders — the team at the top of a league
  • lease-purchase — the continuing use of property or goods under a lease for a stipulated period with option for the lessee to buy and with part of the rental charges credited toward the purchase price.
  • lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
  • leisure retail — Leisure retail is used to refer to retail outlets that attract shoppers to spend some of their free time browsing and shopping.
  • leptodactylous — having slender toes or fingers.
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • liability suit — a claim for damages based on the plaintiff's claim of the defendant's liability
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • little russian — former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.
  • livia drusilla — 58 bc–29 ad, Roman noblewoman: wife (from 39 bc) of Emperor Augustus and mother of Emperor Tiberius
  • longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
  • 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.
  • lost and found — a room in a public place for items left behind and from which the owners may retrieve them.
  • 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 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.
  • lower silurian — Ordovician
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • lu-wang school — School of Mind.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
  • macrocephalous — Having a large head.
  • macrodactylous — related to or having macrodactyly
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • macromolecules — Plural form of macromolecule.
  • magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
  • malacophyllous — (of plants living in dry regions) having fleshy leaves in which water is stored
  • maladjustments — Plural form of maladjustment.
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