14-letter words containing s, n, o, p, e
- in/out of step — If people who are walking or dancing are in step, they are moving their feet forward at exactly the same time as each other. If they are out of step, their feet are moving forward at different times.
- inappositeness — The state or quality of not being apposite.
- inapprehension — lack of apprehension.
- income support — welfare payment to low earners
- incomes policy — a government policy to curb inflation that relies on voluntary compliance rather than on mandatory wage, price, or profit controls.
- incompetencies — the quality or condition of being incompetent; lack of ability.
- incompleteness — not complete; lacking some part.
- incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
- incorporealism — Existence without a body or material form; immateriality.
- incorporeities — Plural form of incorporeity.
- indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
- indisposedness — The condition or quality of being indisposed.
- inspection pit — a hole in the floor of a garage, etc from which the underside of a vehicle can be examined and serviced
- interest group — a group of people drawn or acting together in support of a common interest or to voice a common concern: Political interest groups seek to influence legislation.
- interiorscaper — One who works in interiorscaping.
- interpolations — Plural form of interpolation.
- introspectible — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- introspections — Plural form of introspection.
- irresponsibles — Plural form of irresponsible.
- isentropically — in an isentropic manner
- isolated point — Mathematics. a point in a set such that the neighborhood of the point is devoid of any other points belonging to the set.
- james stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
- japanese holly — an evergreen shrub, Ilex crenata, of Japan, having black fruit and box-shaped foliage, widely grown as an ornamental.
- jet propulsion — the propulsion of a body by its reaction to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
- kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
- keynote speech — opening address at a conference
- kit inspection — inspection of soldiers' kit by a superior officer, to make sure it is all clean, working, and in a good state
- know the ropes — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
- kola peninsula — Also called Kola Peninsula. a peninsula in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, between the White and Barents seas.
- kola-peninsula — Also called Kola Peninsula. a peninsula in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, between the White and Barents seas.
- landscape mode — a wide exposure suitable for photographing landscapes
- laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
- lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- 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.
- leopard's-bane — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, of Europe and Asia, having alternate, usually clasping leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
- lepontine alps — a range of the S central Alps, in S Switzerland and N Italy. Highest peak: Monte Leone, 3553 m (11 657 ft)
- lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
- 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.
- locker-lampson — Frederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
- 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.
- lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
- 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).
- lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- magnetospheres — Plural form of magnetosphere.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- male menopause — a malaise that allegedly affects men in middle age and is said to be responsible for periods of emotional upset and uncharacteristic behavior.