14-letter words containing lan
- slant drilling — Slant drilling is drilling at an angle of usually 30° to 45°.
- slantendicular — slanting (rather than perpendicular or horizontal)
- south portland — a city in SW Maine.
- specimen plant — a plant grown by itself for ornamental effect, rather than being massed with others in a bed or border.
- spring balance — a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale
- stewart island — one of the islands of New Zealand, S of South Island. 670 sq. mi. (1735 sq. km).
- strip planting — the growing of different crops on alternate strips of ground that usually follow the contour of the land, a recourse to minimize erosion.
- symmetry plane — reflection plane.
- talaud islands — a group of islands in NE Indonesia. 495 sq. mi. (1281 sq. km).
- telangiectasis — chronic dilatation of the capillaries and other small blood vessels.
- the platteland — (in South Africa) the country districts or rural areas
- the waste land — a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot.
- tokara islands — a group of Japanese islands in the W Pacific Ocean, in the N Ryukyu Islands.
- tortoise plant — elephant's-foot.
- trade language — a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.
- traffic island — a raised or marked-off area between lanes of a roadway, used by pedestrians to get out of the flow of traffic, as a place for traffic signals, for separating lanes, etc.
- training plane — a plane used for training pilots, esp in the military
- trans-atlantic — crossing or reaching across the Atlantic: a transatlantic liner.
- transplanetary — farther from the sun than a given planet.
- tubuai islands — a chain of small islands extending about 1400 km (850 miles) in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia; discovered by Captain Cook in 1777; annexed by France in 1880. Pop: 1979 (2002). Area: 173 sq km (67 sq miles)
- umbrella plant — an African plant, Cyperus alternifolius, of the sedge family, that has several stems growing directly upward from a mass of roots and an umbrella-shaped cluster of leaves at the top of each stem.
- undulant fever — brucellosis.
- union language — a form of a language, used in literature and for official and educational purposes, that combines vocabulary and grammatical features from a number of related dialects, thus representing a compromise between them.
- urban planning — the planning and design of urban areas
- valcour island — an island in NE New York, in Lake Champlain: battle 1776.
- vascular plant — a plant having a vascular system.
- virgin islands — group of islands in the Caribbean
- walk the plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
- water plantain — any of several marsh plants of the genus Alisma, esp A. plantago-aquatica, of N temperate regions and Australia, having clusters of small white or pinkish flowers and broad pointed leaves: family Alismataceae
- water purslane — a creeping, Eurasian annual plant, Lythrum portula, of marshes and wetlands, having small flowers and rounded leaves.
- watling island — San Salvador (def 1).
- web - language — (language) Donald Knuth's self-documenting literate programming, with algorithms and documentation intermixed in one file. They can be separated using Weave and Tangle. Versions exist for Pascal and C. Spiderweb can be used to create versions for other languages. FunnelWeb is a production-quality literate-programming tool.
- welfare island — a former name of Roosevelt Island.
- whole language — a method of teaching reading in which reading is combined with listening, speaking, and writing practice, and literature is used to decode words in context. Compare phonics (def 1).
- world language — a language spoken and known in many countries, such as English
- wrangel island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of the extreme NE of Russia: administratively part of Russia; mountainous and mostly tundra. Area: about 7300 sq km (2800 sq miles)
- xanthomelanous — of or relating to olive-skinned and dark-haired peoples, belonging to the Xanthomelanoi division
- xenotransplant — xenograft.
- zero balancing — a therapy involving the manipulation of the patient's skeletal structure in order to restore the balance of energy, relieve pain, and maintain well-being