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14-letter words containing line

  • above the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • above-the-line — denoting entries printed above the horizontal line on a company's profit-and-loss account separating the entries that show how the profit (or loss) was made from the entries showing how the profit is to be distributed
  • alkaline earth — any of the divalent electropositive metals beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, and radium, belonging to group 2A of the periodic table
  • atlantic liner — a large passenger ship that regularly crosses the Atlantic Ocean
  • attention line — a line of text after the address on a piece of correspondence, directing it to a particular person or department.
  • below the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • below-the-line — denoting the entries printed below the horizontal line on a company's profit-and-loss account that show how any profit is to be distributed
  • cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
  • container line — a haulier or carrier that uses containers
  • creatureliness — creatural.
  • curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
  • cylinder liner — A cylinder liner is a thin-walled hard metal cylinder inserted into a cylinder block of an engine and in which the piston runs.
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • dead-ball line — a line not more than 22 metres behind the goal line at each end of the field beyond which the ball is out of play
  • dedicated line — (communications)   A telephone line leased expressly for the purpose of connecting two users more-or-less permenantly.. Such lines may be "voice grade" which provides the bandwidth and signal to noise ratio of ordinary public switched telephone network circuits, or specified in ways which allow transport of suitably encoded digital signals at faster rates. In some cases, lines may be physical wires between the communicating parties. Over longer distances, it is common for the connection to be virtual, which means that although the two users can communicate only with each other, their signals and others are multiplexed, amplified, switched, scrambled, demultiplexed and so on in complex ways between the end points. This contrasts with a dial-up connection which is only opened when one end requires it.
  • demeclocycline — a broad-spectrum antibiotic, C 21 H 21 ClN 2 O 8 , derived from a mutant strain of the bacterium Streptomyces aureofaciens: used against a wide range of susceptible microorganisms.
  • diffusion line — a range of clothes made by a top fashion designer for a high-street retailer
  • disorderliness — The state or quality of being disorderly.
  • dragline crane — an excavating crane having a bucket that is dropped from a boom and dragged toward the crane base by a cable.
  • finishing line — In a race, the finishing line is the place on the track or course where the race officially ends.
  • hairline crack — a very fine crack
  • hydroxyproline — a nutritionally nonessential amino acid, C 5 H 9 NO 3 , found chiefly in collagen.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • in-line skates — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
  • inclined plane — one of the simple machines, a plane surface inclined to the horizon, or forming with a horizontal plane any angle but a right angle. Compare machine (def 4b).
  • inline element — (web)   Any HTML element that is rendered in the same position as normal plain text, i.e. to the right of the preceding text (for left-to-right scripts). This contrasts with a block-level elements that is always placed below the preceding text line. Inline elements typically specify formatting, e.g. (bold), or the kind of content, e.g. , , though they also include things like inline images () and text areas (