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

  • consultatively — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
  • contemptuously — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
  • conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
  • contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
  • control survey — an accurate survey of a region forming a basis for more detailed surveys.
  • control system — a system that senses, switches, or regulates another system
  • contumeliously — insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.
  • cooling system — a system which cools something such as a building or engine
  • courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
  • courtesy title — any of several titles having no legal significance, such as those borne by the children of peers
  • cross-ply tire — bias-ply tire.
  • crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
  • cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
  • cyclooxygenase — (enzyme) Any of several enzymes that catalyze the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandins; their inhibition is the mode of action of aspirin and ibuprofen.
  • cyclosilicates — Plural form of cyclosilicate.
  • daddy longlegs — A daddy longlegs is a flying insect with very long legs.
  • daddy-longlegs — Also called harvestman. any of numerous spiderlike arachnids of the order Opiliones, having a compact rounded body and extremely long, slender legs.
  • decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
  • demythologised — Simple past tense and past participle of demythologise.
  • dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
  • dimensionality — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
  • disappointedly — depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations: a disappointed suitor.
  • disconcertedly — In a disconcerted manner.
  • disconnectedly — In a disconnected manner.
  • disconsolately — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
  • discontentedly — not content or satisfied; dissatisfied; restlessly unhappy: For all their wealth, or perhaps because of it, they were discontented.
  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • discretionally — At one's discretion.
  • disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
  • dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
  • dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • dodecasyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to 12 syllables.
  • dodecasyllable — a word or line of verse containing 12 syllables.
  • donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
  • dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
  • double density — floppy disk
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
  • earl of surreyEarl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
  • ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • ego psychology — the study of the adaptive and mediating functions of the ego and their role in personality development and emotional disorder
  • electrosensory — Of or pertaining to the ability of a biological organism to perceive electrical impulses.
  • electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • enantiostylous — in the manner of enantiostyly
  • encompassingly — So as to encompass.
  • encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
  • encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
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