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14-letter words containing e

  • latchkey child — a child who must spend at least part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work.
  • late check-out — A late check-out at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check out later than the normal time.
  • late developer — someone, esp a teenager, who matures physically or emotionally at an older age than considered usual
  • late-type star — any star with a surface temperature below that of the sun, of spectral type K, M, C, or S
  • latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
  • latent content — the hidden meaning of a fantasy or dream, discoverable by analysis of the content of the dream.
  • lateral system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to the side of a channel they occupy and their relative position along that side.
  • lateralisation — Alternative spelling of lateralization.
  • lateralization — functional specialization of the brain, with some skills, as language, occurring primarily in the left hemisphere and others, as the perception of visual and spatial relationships, occurring primarily in the right hemisphere.
  • lateran palace — a palace in Rome used as the papal residence from the 4th century a.d. to the removal of the papal court to Avignon, rebuilt in 1586, and now a museum for classical and Christian antiques.
  • laterotemporal — (anatomy) Relating to the lateral part of the temporal region of the skull.
  • lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
  • latin alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from the Greek alphabet through Etruscan, used from about the 6th century b.c. for the writing of Latin, and since adopted, with modifications and additions of letters such as w, by the languages of Western Europe, including English, as well as many other languages.
  • latin american — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
  • lattice defect — defect (def 3).
  • lattice energy — chemistry: strength of bonds holding ionic solid together
  • lattice girder — a trusslike girder having the upper and lower chords connected by latticing.
  • lattice window — a window formed of an open framework of wood, metal, etc, arranged to form an ornamental pattern
  • laughing hyena — an African hyena, Crocuta crocuta, having a yellowish-gray coat with brown or black spots, noted for its distinctive howl.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • launch vehicle — Aerospace. a rocket used to launch a spacecraft or satellite into orbit or a space probe into space.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
  • laurent series — a power series in which the negative as well as the positive powers appear.
  • lavatory paper — Lavatory paper is paper that you use to clean yourself after you have got rid of urine or faeces from your body.
  • lavender water — a pale bluish purple.
  • law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
  • lawrence frame — a gilded frame for a circular or oval painting, having a rectangular exterior form.
  • lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
  • lay sb to rest — If you say that someone who has died is laid to rest, you mean that they are buried.
  • lay waste (to) — to destroy; devastate; make desolate
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • lead carbonate — a white crystalline compound, PbCO 3 , toxic when inhaled, insoluble in water and alcohol: used as an exterior paint pigment.
  • lead poisoning — Pathology. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
  • lead the field — If you say that someone leads the field in a particular activity, you mean that they are better, more active, or more successful than everyone else who is involved in it.
  • lead(ii) oxide — a poisonous insoluble oxide of lead existing in red and yellow forms: used in making glass, glazes, and cements, and as a pigment. Formula: PbO
  • leading rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable but junior to that of a corporal in the army
  • leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
  • leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
  • leafcutter ant — any of various South American ants of the genus Atta that cut pieces of leaves and use them as fertilizer for the fungus on which they feed
  • leafcutter bee — any of various solitary bees of the genus Megachile that nest in soil or rotten wood, constructing the cells in which they lay their eggs from pieces of leaf
  • league leaders — the team at the top of a league
  • leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • learn by heart — memorize
  • learner driver — a person who is learning to drive
  • learning curve — Education. a graphic representation of progress in learning measured against the time required to achieve mastery.
  • lease-purchase — the continuing use of property or goods under a lease for a stipulated period with option for the lessee to buy and with part of the rental charges credited toward the purchase price.
  • leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
  • leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
  • leave feedback — If a guest leaves feedback, they tell you if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
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