16-letter words containing eli
- candlelit dinner — a meal for a couple which is illuminated by a candle or candles, esp in order to create a romantic mood
- cash on delivery — If you pay for goods cash on delivery, you pay for them in cash when they are delivered. The abbreviation C.O.D. is also used.
- chemical peeling — a cosmetic process in which a substance containing a chemical (esp alpha-hydroxy acids) is applied to the skin of the face and peeled away to remove a layer of dead cells
- congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
- contumeliousness — The state or quality of being contumelious.
- cornelian cherry — a flowering tree of the dogwood family Cornus mas
- croydon facelift — the tightening effect on the skin of a woman's face caused by securing the hair at the back of the head in a tight ponytail
- deliberativeness — The state or quality of being deliberative.
- delirium tremens — a severe psychotic condition occurring in some persons with chronic alcoholism, characterized by delirium, tremor, anxiety, and vivid hallucinations
- elimination game — In sports, an elimination game is a game that decides which team or player will take part in the next stage of a particular competition.
- evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
- executive relief — sexual intercourse or masturbation
- feline distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
- flash eliminator — a device fitted to the muzzle of a firearm to reduce the flash made by the ignited propellant gases
- forward delivery — delivery at a future date.
- general delivery — a postal service that delivers mail to a specific post office where it is held for pickup by the addressee.
- golden delicious — a bright yellow type of Delicious apple.
- heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
- in the limelight — prominent, featured in the news
- infelicitousness — (linguistics, pragmatics) The quality or state of being infelicitous, or pragmatically ill-formed.
- javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
- karelian isthmus — a narrow strip of land between Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland, in the NW Russian Federation.
- montpelier maple — a maple, Acer monspessulanum, that is native to southern Europe and Northwest Africa
- mousseline sauce — a light sauce, made by adding whipped cream or egg whites to hollandaise sauce
- natural religion — religion based on principles derived solely from reason and the study of nature.
- neuroborreliosis — A disorder of the central nervous system caused by a spirochete of the genus Borrelia.
- neuroepithelioma — Neurocytoma.
- no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- on the sidelines — in the area along the sidelines
- pelican crossing — place to cross road
- post-elizabethan — of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times: Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
- pseudo-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
- religious issues — Questions which seemingly cannot be raised without touching off holy wars, such as "What is the best operating system (or editor, language, architecture, shell, mail reader, news reader)?", "What about that Heinlein guy, eh?", "What should we add to the new Jargon File?" See holy wars; see also theology, bigot. This term is a prime example of ha ha only serious. People actually develop the most amazing and religiously intense attachments to their tools, even when the tools are intangible. The most constructive thing one can do when one stumbles into the crossfire is mumble Get a life! and leave - unless, of course, one's *own* unassailably rational and obviously correct choices are being slammed.
- religious leader — head of a church or order
- self-deliverance — suicide.
- special delivery — (in the U.S. Postal Service) delivery of mail outside the regularly scheduled hours, by a special messenger, upon the payment of an extra fee.
- spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
- vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
- wireline logging — Wireline logging is the process of using electric instruments to continuously measure the properties of a formation, in order to make decisions about drilling and production operations.
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