14-letter words containing lle
- fortune-teller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
- foxtail millet — a grass, Setaria italica, of numerous varieties, introduced into the U.S. from Europe and Asia, and grown chiefly for use as hay.
- french cruller — cruller (def 2).
- french-cruller — a rich, light cake cut from a rolled dough and deep-fried, usually having a twisted oblong shape and sometimes topped with sugar or icing.
- frilled lizard — a medium-sized Australian lizard, Chlamydosaurus kingi, having a large, cloaklike flap of skin on the neck that stiffens during courtship or threat displays, forming a wide ruff.
- fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
- gabriel tellez — (Gabriel Téllez) 1571?–1648, Spanish dramatist.
- gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
- galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
- halley's comet — a comet with a period averaging 76 years. In this century it was visible to terrestrial observers just before and after reaching perihelion in 1910 and again in 1986.
- hanging valley — a valley, the lower end of which opens high above a shore, usually caused by the rapid erosion of a cliff.
- hendersonville — a city in S Tennessee.
- hermann muller — Hermann Joseph, 1890–1967, U.S. geneticist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1946.
- hollerith code — a system for coding data into punched cards, in which each horizontal row is assigned a different value, and letters, numbers, or special characters are encoded as combinations of these values in a vertical column.
- hotel de ville — a city hall.
- hypoallergenic — designed to reduce or minimize the possibility of an allergic response, as by containing relatively few or no potentially irritating substances: hypoallergenic cosmetics.
- illegalization — to make illegal: They even wanted to illegalize smoking.
- illegitimately — born of parents who are not married to each other; born out of wedlock: an illegitimate child.
- illegitimation — (obsolete) The act of making illegitimate; bastardization.
- illegitimatize — to make illegitimate: The decree illegitimatized his heirs.
- illegitimizing — illegitimatize.
- intellectually — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
- jeffersonville — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
- junior college — a collegiate institution offering courses only through the first one or two years of college instruction and granting a certificate of title instead of a degree.
- lleras camargo — Alberto [ahl-ver-taw] /ɑlˈvɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1906–89, Colombian journalist, writer, and political leader: president 1945–46, 1958–62.
- malleable iron — malleable cast iron.
- mechanicsville — a village in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle 1862.
- mesdemoiselles — a plural of mademoiselle.
- millenarianism — a belief in the millennium.
- millennialists — Plural form of millennialist.
- millennium bug — Year 2000
- miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
- miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
- moth repellent — a chemical produced and sold to keep moths off clothes
- much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
- multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
- nolle prosequi — an entry made upon the records of a court when the plaintiff or prosecutor will proceed no further in a suit or action. Abbreviation: nol. pros.
- non-collective — formed by collection.
- nouvelle vague — a new wave, trend, movement, phase, etc., especially in an art form.
- over-fulfilled — to carry out, or bring to realization, as a prophecy or promise.
- overbejewelled — wearing an excessive amount of jewellery, or excessively decorated
- overcontrolled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- par excellence — being an example of excellence; superior; preeminent (used postpositively): a chef par excellence.
- parallel axiom — the axiom in Euclidean geometry that only one line can be drawn through a given point so that the line is parallel to a given line that does not contain the point.
- parallel forth — Forth For the MPP.
- parallel ruler — a drawing instrument in which two parallel edges are connected so that they remain parallel, although the distance between them can be varied
- parallelepiped — a prism with six faces, all parallelograms.
- passion killer — something that is sexually unattractive or inhibiting
- peanut allergy — a condition of being hypersensitive to peanuts and peanut substances which can lead to severe physical symptoms if peanuts or peanut substances are consumed
- peanut gallery — Informal. the rearmost and cheapest section of seats in the balcony or the uppermost balcony of a theater.