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14-letter words containing y, e, l, p

  • compensability — eligibility for compensation
  • comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • concupiscently — In a concupiscent manner; with concupiscence.
  • contemporarily — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
  • contemptuously — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
  • copolymerizing — Present participle of copolymerize.
  • country people — people who live in the country
  • cross-ply tire — bias-ply tire.
  • crystal palace — a building of glass and iron designed by Joseph Paxton to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. Erected in Hyde Park, London, it was moved to Sydenham (1852–53): destroyed by fire in 1936
  • cyanoplatinite — platinocyanide.
  • cyclopentolate — a medicine administered as an eye drop that causes pupil dilation and relaxes the lens
  • cylinder press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
  • dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
  • delayed speech — a speech disorder of children in which the levels of intelligibility, vocabulary, complexity of utterance, etc., are significantly below the levels considered standard for a particular age.
  • departmentally — In a departmental manner; affecting departments.
  • depreciatingly — So as to disparage or belittle.
  • dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
  • developability — to bring out the capabilities or possibilities of; bring to a more advanced or effective state: to develop natural resources; to develop one's musical talent.
  • diethylpropion — a sympathomimetic substance, C 13 H 19 NO⋅HCl, used as an appetite suppressor and a short-term adjunct in the management of certain kinds of obesity.
  • disappointedly — depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations: a disappointed suitor.
  • discerpibility — the quality of being able to be discerped
  • dispensability — capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
  • dispensatively — in a dispensative manner
  • dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
  • dispersibility — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
  • dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
  • dolichocephaly — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
  • donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
  • earsplittingly — In an earsplitting way; very loudly.
  • ego psychology — the study of the adaptive and mediating functions of the ego and their role in personality development and emotional disorder
  • electrotherapy — The use of electric currents passed through the body to stimulate nerves and muscles, chiefly in the treatment of various forms of paralysis.
  • empathetically — In an empathetic way.
  • employment law — rules governing working practices
  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • encephalopathy — A disease in which the functioning of the brain is affected by some agent or condition (such as viral infection or toxins in the blood).
  • encompassingly — So as to encompass.
  • encyclopaediae — Irregular plural form of encyclopaedia.
  • encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
  • encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
  • encyclopedical — (American spelling) alternative spelling of encyclopaedical.
  • encyclopedists — Plural form of encyclopedist.
  • endopolyploidy — The replication of chromosomes without the division of the cell nucleus; generates a polyploid nucleus.
  • endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.
  • enterprisingly — In an enterprising manner.
  • epenthetically — In an epenthetic manner; by means of epenthesis.
  • epexegetically — In an epexegetic manner.
  • epigenetically — By means of, or in terms of, epigenesis or epigenetics.
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • equity capital — Finance
  • ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
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