14-letter words containing ll
- swelled-headed — an inordinately grand opinion of oneself; conceit.
- switch selling — a system of selling, now illegal in Britain, whereby potential customers are attracted by a special offer on some goods but the salesman's real aim is to sell other more expensive goods instead
- swollen-headed — conceited
- 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.
- synchronically — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
- systematically — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- table football — a game based on soccer, played on a table with sets of miniature human figures mounted on rods allowing them to be tilted or spun to strike the ball
- talismanically — in a talismanic manner
- tall buttercup — a Eurasian buttercup, Ranunculus acris, naturalized in North American fields and meadows, having a tall stem and shiny yellow flowers.
- tate galleries — two art galleries in London, the original Tate Gallery (1897), now Tate Britain, and Tate Modern, created in the former Bankside power station in 2000
- tax-collecting — the collection of taxes owed by individuals
- technothriller — a suspense novel in which the manipulation of sophisticated technology, as of aircraft or weapons systems, plays a prominent part.
- telepathically — communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception.
- telephone call — contact by phone
- telephonically — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
- telescopically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
- telesmatically — in a telesmatic manner
- tell el amarna — a group of ruins and rock tombs in Upper Egypt, on the Nile below Asyut: site of the capital of Amenhotep IV, built about 1375 bc; excavated from 1891 onwards
- tellurous acid — a white, crystalline powder, H2TeO3
- ten-gallon hat — a broad-brimmed hat with a high crown, worn especially in the western and southwestern U.S.; cowboy hat.
- tetraethyllead — a colorless, oily, water-insoluble, poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5) 4 Pb, used as an antiknock agent in gasoline.
- the all blacks — the international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
- the all whites — the former name for the international soccer team of New Zealand
- the full monty — something in its entirety
- the guillotine — a device for beheading persons, consisting of a weighted blade set between two upright posts
- the millennium — the period of a thousand years of Christ's awaited reign upon earth
- thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
- thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
- till all hours — until very late
- time will tell — sth will be revealed
- tiruchirapalli — a city in central Tamil Nadu, in S India, on the Kaveri River.
- to call a halt — If someone calls a halt to something such as an activity, they decide not to continue with it or to end it immediately.
- to follow suit — If people follow suit, they do the same thing that someone else has just done.
- to go belly-up — (of a company) to not have enough money to pay its debts
- to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
- to smell a rat — If you smell a rat, you begin to suspect or realize that something is wrong in a particular situation, for example that someone is trying to deceive you or harm you.
- toll collector — a person or device collecting or registering tolls.
- tortilla chips — snack food: corn crisps
- total football — an attacking style of play, popularized by the Dutch national team of the 1970s, in which there are no fixed positions and every outfield player can join in the attack
- touch football — an informal variety of football in which the touching, usually with both hands, of a ball-carrier by a member of the opposing team results in a down.
- treasury bills — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
- tropologically — in a way which uses figurative language
- tyndall effect — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
- tyndall-effect — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
- ujamaa village — communally organized village in Tanzania
- 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.
- umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
- umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
- un-cancellable — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- un-challenging — offering a challenge; testing one's ability, endurance, etc: a challenging course; a challenging game.