14-letter words containing t, e, l, i, u
- involute teeth — (in gears) teeth having a profile that is the involute of a circle.
- irreducibility — (uncountable) The quality or degree of being irreducible.
- irregularities — the quality or state of being irregular.
- irresoluteness — The state of being irresolute.
- irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
- irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
- issued capital — the shares of a company that have been sold or distributed
- jet propulsion — the propulsion of a body by its reaction to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
- job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
- journal intime — a personal or private diary.
- judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
- just like that — suddenly
- juvenile court — a law court having jurisdiction over youths, generally of less than 18 years.
- juvenilization — The act or process of juvenilizing.
- kaieteur falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- kaieteur-falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- kaiserslautern — a city in S Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany.
- kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
- laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
- laurent series — a power series in which the negative as well as the positive powers appear.
- lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
- leisure centre — A leisure centre is a large public building containing different facilities for leisure activities, such as a sports hall, a swimming pool, and rooms for meetings.
- leisure retail — Leisure retail is used to refer to retail outlets that attract shoppers to spend some of their free time browsing and shopping.
- letter quality — of or producing printed characters similar in quality and clarity to typewritten characters
- letter-quality — (of computer printers and their output) pertaining to an appearance equal in legibility and resolution to copy typed on an electric typewriter: A letter-quality printer produces sharper copy than a dot-matrix model.
- leucocythaemia — leukaemia
- leucocytolysis — the destruction of leucocytes
- leucocytopenia — leucopenia
- leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- licentiousness — sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
- lieutenantship — the office of a lieutenant
- lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
- light the fuse — If someone or something lights the fuse of a particular situation or activity, they suddenly get it started.
- light-coloured — having a light colour
- 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.
- liquid protein — an amino acid hydrosol used in weight-reduction programs as a substitute for all or some meals: generally regarded as hazardous to health because of low nutritional content and recommended for controlled use only under medical supervision.
- liquiritigenin — (organic compound) A flavanone found in a variety of plants including liquorice.
- little russian — former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- living picture — tableau (def 3).
- logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
- logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
- 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.
- low-resolution — of or relating to CRTs, printers, or other visual output devices that produce images that are not sharply defined (opposed to high-resolution).
- lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
- magniloquently — In a magniloquent manner.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.