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14-letter words containing s, o, l, e, a

  • anti-bolshevik — a person who is opposed to Bolshevism
  • anticonvulsive — preventing or alleviating convulsions
  • antihomosexual — opposed to homosexual people and behaviour
  • antineoplastic — acting against tumours
  • apheliotropism — a tendency of certain plants to turn away from the sun; negative heliotropism
  • apocryphalness — the quality of being apocryphal
  • aposematically — in an aposematic manner
  • apple polisher — a sycophant; toady
  • apple-polisher — to curry favor with someone, especially in an obsequious or flattering manner.
  • aquifoliaceous — related to the Aquifoliaceae family of plants, the only living genus of which is the holly (Ilex) genus
  • arborsculpture — The art and craft technique of growing and shaping tree trunks.
  • archaeologists — Plural form of archaeologist.
  • archiepiscopal — of or associated with an archbishop
  • area vasculosa — that part of the area opaca in which the blood cells and vessels are formed.
  • arthroplasties — Plural form of arthroplasty.
  • as all get-out — to a considerable degree; greatly
  • as you like it — a comedy (1599?) by Shakespeare.
  • assault course — An assault course is an area of land covered with obstacles such as walls which people, especially soldiers, use to improve their skills and strength.
  • assault weapon — any of various automatic and semiautomatic military firearms utilizing an intermediate-power cartridge, designed for individual use. Compare assault rifle.
  • assembly point — a designated place where people have been told to wait after evacuating a building in the event of a fire or other emergency
  • assembly rooms — a set of rooms used as a public place of entertainment, usually dating from the eighteenth or nineteenth century
  • assemblyperson — a member of a legislative assembly, especially a member of the lower house of the legislature in certain states of the U.S.
  • assert oneself — to insist on one's rights, or on being recognized
  • associableness — The state or quality of being associable.
  • astrogeologist — a person who studies astrogeology
  • at a loose end — If you are at a loose end, you are bored because you do not have anything to do and cannot think of anything that you want to do. In American English, you usually say that you are at loose ends.
  • at close range — If you see or hit something at close range or from close range, you are very close to it when you see it or hit it. If you do something at a range of half a mile, for example, you are half a mile away from it when you do it.
  • at loggerheads — If two or more people or groups are at loggerheads, they disagree very strongly with each other.
  • at one's elbow — within easy reach
  • at one's heels — just behind or following closely
  • at one's peril — If you say that someone does something at their peril, you are warning them that they will probably suffer as a result of doing it.
  • athlete's foot — Athlete's foot is a fungal infection in which the skin between the toes becomes cracked or peels off.
  • atlas autocode — (language)   The Autocode for the Ferranti Atlas, which may have been the first commercial computer with hardware-paged virtual memory. Whereas other autocodes were basically assembly languages, Atlas Autocode was high-level and block-structured, resembling a cross between Fortran and ALGOL 60. It had call-by value, loops, declarations, complex numbers, pointers, heap and stack storage generators, dynamic arrays, and extensible syntax.
  • avalokitesvara — a male Bodhisattva, widely revered and identified with various persons and gods.
  • axial skeleton — the bones that together comprise the skull and the vertebral column
  • axis of diesel — a name given to a bloc of countries (Russia, Iran, and Venezuela) whose reserves of oil enhance their political importance
  • bachelor chest — a chest of drawers, esp., one for men's shirts, sweaters, underwear, etc.
  • bacteriologist — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
  • ball of muscle — a very strong, fit, or forceful person
  • ballast pocket — a depression that is formed beneath the ballast layer by penetration of ballast particles into the subgrade and that tends to collect moisture.
  • ballon d'essai — a project or policy put forward experimentally to gauge reactions to it
  • balloon sleeve — a sleeve fitting tightly from wrist to elbow and becoming fully rounded from elbow to shoulder
  • balsam of peru — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
  • balsaminaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Balsaminaceae, a family of flowering plants, including balsam and touch-me-not, that have irregular flowers and explosive capsules
  • barnacle goose — a N European goose, Branta leucopsis, that has a black-and-white head and body and grey wings
  • baseball glove — a padded glove with webbing between the thumb and index finger, worn by baseball players
  • basket-of-gold — a yellow-flowered perennial plant (Alyssum saxatile, now more properly Aurinia saxatilis) of the crucifer family, often used in rock gardens
  • battle of wits — If you refer to a situation as a battle of wits, you mean that it involves people with opposing aims who compete with each other using their intelligence, rather than force.
  • battle station — the place or position that one is assigned to for battle or in an emergency.
  • bazillionaires — Plural form of bazillionaire.
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