14-letter words containing y, e, l, i
- arithmetically — the method or process of computation with figures: the most elementary branch of mathematics.
- artificial eye — a manufactured eye of glass, plastic, or other material, usually hemispherical or cup-shaped, worn cosmetically over a blind eye or in the socket of a lost eye and sometimes attached to muscles to provide movement.
- as you like it — a comedy (1599?) by Shakespeare.
- 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
- asseveratingly — in an asseverating or affirming manner
- asymmetrically — not identical on both sides of a central line; unsymmetrical; lacking symmetry: Most faces are asymmetric.
- attemptability — the capability of being attempted or condition of being attemptable
- augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
- authority file — a file, either on cards or in machine-readable format, in which decisions involving bibliographic records, particularly for form of entry, are recorded to establish a precedent or rule for subsequent decisions and to provide for consistency of entries.
- auxiliary note — a nonharmonic note occurring between two harmonic notes
- auxiliary tone — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and returning to the principal tone; embellishment.
- auxiliary verb — a verb used to indicate the tense, voice, mood, etc, of another verb where this is not indicated by inflection, such as English will in he will go, was in he was eating and he was eaten, do in I do like you, etc
- avalanche lily — a wildflower (Erythronium montanum) of the lily family, native to the mountain meadows of Washington and Oregon and blooming in June among the melting snowbanks
- avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
- backbreakingly — In a backbreaking manner.
- barometrically — By means of a barometer.
- bastard ridley — ridley (def 1).
- bastard-ridley — ridley (def 1).
- belaying cleat — a cleat used for belaying
- believe you me — You can use believe you me to emphasize that what you are saying is true.
- bicycle-racing — the act or sport of riding or traveling by bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
- billy no-mates — a person with no friends
- bioarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the remains of living things
- bioelectricity — electricity generated by a living organism
- biometeorology — the study of the effect of weather conditions on living organisms
- blantyre-limbe — a city in S Malawi: largest city in the country; formed in 1956 from the adjoining towns of Blantyre and Limbe. Pop: 647 000 (2005 est)
- blended family — a social unit consisting of two previously married parents and the children of their former marriages
- body beautiful — a beautiful body
- boy-meets-girl — conventionally or trivially romantic
- brachycephalic — having a head nearly as broad from side to side as from front to back, esp one with a cephalic index over 80
- breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
- burying beetle — a beetle of the genus Necrophorous, which buries the dead bodies of small animals by excavating beneath them, using the corpses as food for themselves and their larvae: family Silphidae
- business cycle — the recurrent fluctuation between boom and depression in the economic activity of a capitalist country
- business reply — a form of mail, as a postcard, letter, or envelope, usually sent as an enclosure, and which can be mailed back by respondents without their having to pay postage.
- butterfly fish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
- cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
- caller display — a facility which shows the number of an incoming call
- caloric energy — energy measured in calories
- capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
- carrying place — portage (def 3).
- cataleptically — in a trancelike or cataleptic manner
- cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
- celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
- celestial city — the goal of Christian's journey in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; the heavenly Jerusalem.
- chantilly lace — a delicate ornamental lace
- checkered lily — a lily, Fritillaria meleagris, native to Europe, having solitary, checkered, red-purple flowers mottled with greenish yellow.
- children's day — the second Sunday in June, celebrated by Protestant churches with special programs for children: first started in the U.S. in 1868.
- chlorcyclizine — an antihistamine, C18H21ClN2, used for treating allergies
- chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl