14-letter words containing ly
- apocalypticism — the belief in apocalyptic prophecy
- apologetically — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- apoplectically — of or relating to apoplexy or stroke.
- aposematically — in an aposematic manner
- apotropaically — in an apotropaic manner
- appreciatively — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
- apprehensively — uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
- aquaculturally — In an aquacultural manner; with regard to, or by means of, aquaculture.
- arachnodactyly — A condition in which the fingers and hands are abnormally long and slender.
- archetypically — the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
- arithmetically — the method or process of computation with figures: the most elementary branch of mathematics.
- assembly plant — An assembly plant is a factory where large items such as cars are put together, usually using parts which have been made in other factories.
- assembly point — a designated place where people have been told to wait after evacuating a building in the event of a fire or other emergency
- assembly rooms — a set of rooms used as a public place of entertainment, usually dating from the eighteenth or nineteenth century
- assemblymember — A person who serves as a member of an assembly.
- assemblyperson — a member of a legislative assembly, especially a member of the lower house of the legislature in certain states of the U.S.
- asseveratingly — in an asseverating or affirming manner
- astrologically — In an astrological manner.
- astronomically — of, relating to, or connected with astronomy.
- asymmetrically — not identical on both sides of a central line; unsymmetrical; lacking symmetry: Most faces are asymmetric.
- asymptotically — of or relating to an asymptote.
- asynchronously — In an asynchronous manner.
- augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
- autocratically — In an autocratic manner.
- autopolyploidy — having more than two haploid sets of chromosomes that are derived from the same ancestral species.
- avalanche lily — a wildflower (Erythronium montanum) of the lily family, native to the mountain meadows of Washington and Oregon and blooming in June among the melting snowbanks
- b power supply — Electronics. B supply.
- backbreakingly — In a backbreaking manner.
- barometrically — By means of a barometer.
- billy no-mates — a person with no friends
- blended family — a social unit consisting of two previously married parents and the children of their former marriages
- blue-arsed fly — a blowfly; bluebottle
- bluebottle fly — any of several iridescent blue blow flies, especially those of the genus Calliphora, some of which are parasitic on domestic animals.
- breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
- business reply — a form of mail, as a postcard, letter, or envelope, usually sent as an enclosure, and which can be mailed back by respondents without their having to pay postage.
- butterfly bomb — Military. a small, aerial, antipersonnel bomb with two folding wings that revolve, slowing the rate of descent and arming the fuze.
- butterfly bush — buddleia
- butterfly fish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- butterfly knot — a particularly resistant knot which resembles a butterfly and can take loads on both ends, as well as on the loop
- butterfly roof — a roof having more than one slope, each descending inward from the eaves.
- butterfly weed — a North American asclepiadaceous plant, Asclepias tuberosa (or A. decumbens), having flat-topped clusters of bright orange flowers
- c power supply — a battery or other source of power for supplying a constant voltage bias to a control electrode of a vacuum tube.
- cabalistically — In a cabalistic manner.
- caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
- cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
- cataleptically — in a trancelike or cataleptic manner
- caucasian lily — a tall lily plant, Lilium monadelphum, having large, fragrant, drooping golden-yellow flowers.
- champs elysees — a boulevard in Paris, France, noted for its cafés, shops, and theaters.
- champs-elysées — a major boulevard in Paris, leading from the Arc de Triomphe: site of the Elysée Palace and government offices
- chantilly lace — a delicate ornamental lace