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14-letter words containing s, y, t, l

  • 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.
  • earsplittingly — In an earsplitting way; very loudly.
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • easy listening — middle-of-the-road (def 3).
  • easy-listening — Also called easy listening. popular music having comparatively conventional, melodic qualities and hence having broad commercial appeal.
  • ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • effervescently — effervescing; bubbling.
  • 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
  • encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
  • encyclopedists — Plural form of encyclopedist.
  • english system — the foot-pound-second system of measurement
  • enterprisingly — In an enterprising manner.
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • eucalyptus oil — an essential oil derived from trees belonging to the Eucalyptus genus and used for pharmaceutical, fragrance and antiseptic purposes
  • eulogistically — In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.
  • euphuistically — In a euphuistic manner.
  • exasperatingly — In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
  • exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
  • expressibility — The quality of being expressible.
  • extensionality — extensional equality
  • extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
  • eye specialist — ophthalmologist
  • falseheartedly — In a falsehearted manner.
  • falsifiability — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
  • family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
  • fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • fatalistically — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
  • fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
  • frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
  • futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
  • gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
  • geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
  • geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
  • graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
  • grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
  • gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
  • gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
  • gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
  • halley's comet — a comet with a period averaging 76 years. In this century it was visible to terrestrial observers just before and after reaching perihelion in 1910 and again in 1986.
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