14-letter words containing sl
- take a dislike — If you take a dislike to someone or something, you decide that you do not like them.
- talaud islands — a group of islands in NE Indonesia. 495 sq. mi. (1281 sq. km).
- the apple isle — Tasmania
- the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
- the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
- the slush pile — the unsolicited manuscripts sent by hopeful authors to a publisher, considered as a whole
- to be slouched — to sit, lie or lean in an ungainly way, with one's limbs spread out
- to sleep rough — When people sleep or live rough, they sleep out of doors, usually because they have no home.
- tokara islands — a group of Japanese islands in the W Pacific Ocean, in the N Ryukyu Islands.
- 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.
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- 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)
- twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
- two-toed sloth — either of two sloths of the genus Choloepus, having two claws on the forelimbs and three on the hind limbs, including C. didactylus and C. hoffmanni.
- unbusinesslike — conforming to, attending to, or characteristic of business.
- unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
- unpropitiously — in an unfavourable or inauspicious manner
- unprosperously — in an unprosperous or unsuccessful manner
- unscrupulously — not scrupulous; unrestrained by scruples; conscienceless; unprincipled.
- unsuspiciously — not suspiciously; in an unsuspicious manner
- untranslatable — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
- untranslatably — not translatably; in an untranslatable manner; in such a way as to be untranslatable
- vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
- valcour island — an island in NE New York, in Lake Champlain: battle 1776.
- virgin islands — group of islands in the Caribbean
- 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).
- welfare island — a former name of Roosevelt Island.
- 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)
- yekaterinoslav — a former name of Dnepropetrovsk.