14-letter words containing y, l, i, d, e
- ozone-friendly — Ozone-friendly chemicals, products, or technology do not cause harm to the ozone layer.
- partially deaf — suffering from hearing loss; partly deaf
- payday lending — the practice of offering short-term loans at high rates of interest, on the agreement that the borrower will pay back the loan when he or she next receives a wage or salary
- pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
- periodontology — periodontics.
- peroxy-radical — the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide.
- pitch cylinder — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- pizza delivery — a service provided by some pizza restaurants whereby pizzas are delivered to customers who have placed orders by telephone
- platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
- play the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
- police academy — a school for training police officers
- police custody — If somebody or something is in police custody, they are kept somewhere secure, under the supervision of police officers, for example in a police station.
- policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- polyacrylamide — a white, solid, water-soluble polymer of acrylamide, used in secondary oil recovery, as a thickening agent, a flocculant, and an absorbent, and to separate macromolecules of different molecular weights.
- polydispersity — the state of being polydisperse
- polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
- polysaccharide — a carbohydrate, as starch, inulin, or cellulose, containing more than three monosaccharide units per molecule, the units being attached to each other in the manner of acetals, and therefore capable of hydrolysis by acids or enzymes to monosaccharides.
- polysuspensoid — a suspensoid in which the solid particles are polydisperse.
- polyvinylidene — pertaining to or derived from a polymer of a vinylidene compound.
- powdery mildew — any of various parasitic fungi of the ascomycete order Erysiphales, which produce a powderlike film of mycelium on the surface of host plants.
- predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
- premeditatedly — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
- prepsychedelic — describing the period before the psychedelic era
- providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- pyramid letter — chain letter.
- pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
- quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
- radiotelemetry — the use of radio waves for transmitting information from a distant instrument to a device that indicates or records the measurements
- radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
- railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
- record library — a collection of records belonging to an individual or an organization, for people to borrow usually without payment
- rural delivery — a mail service in a country area, often run by contractors for the Post Office
- safety islands — a group of three small French islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of French Guiana
- self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
- self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
- semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
- semi-paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
- sesquipedality — given to using long words.
- single density — a disk with the normal capacity for storage
- slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
- solid geometry — the geometry of solid figures; geometry of three dimensions.
- solids recycle — Solids recycle is the return of solids to a liquid-solid operation so that they can be processed or used again.
- spellbindingly — in a spellbinding manner
- spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
- steel industry — production of steel
- strait-lacedly — in a strait-laced manner
- syllable-timed — having a rhythm in which syllables are approximately equal in duration and thus tend to follow each other at regular intervals of time.
- tandem bicycle — a bicycle for two or more persons, having seats and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem, especially popular in the 19th century.
- the very devil — something very difficult or awkward
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.