14-letter words containing y, a, l, e, s
- dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
- dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
- earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- 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.
- embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
- 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.
- endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.
- 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
- eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
- eulogistically — In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.
- euphuistically — In a euphuistic manner.
- exasperatingly — In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
- exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- extensionality — extensional equality
- extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
- eye specialist — ophthalmologist
- eyeball search — (jargon) (Or vgrep) To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool. Compare vdiff, desk check.
- eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
- falseheartedly — In a falsehearted manner.
- faraday shield — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
- feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
- flanders poppy — corn poppy.
- fool's-parsley — an Old World fetid, poisonous plant, Aethusa cynapium, resembling parsley.
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
- gascoyne-cecil — Robert Arthur Talbot [tawl-buh t] /ˈtɔl bət/ (Show IPA), 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, Salisbury (def 1).
- geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
- ginseng family — the plant family Araliaceae, characterized by often prickly herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having alternate leaves and dense clusters of small, whitish or greenish flowers, and including the devil's-club, ginseng, ivy, schefflera, and wild sarsaparilla.
- granny glasses — round spectacles
- graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
- gray sea eagle — a grayish-brown sea eagle, Haliaetus albicilla, of the Old World and Greenland, having a white tail.
- 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.
- happy families — a card game in which the object is to collect the cards (which display images of people) until you have a complete family
- health physics — the branch of physics concerned with the health and safety of people in medical, scientific, and industrial work, esp with protection from the biological effects of ionizing radiation
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.