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14-letter words that end in es

  • petty expenses — small expenses incurred in the course of your work or studies
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • principalities — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
  • pripet marshes — the largest swamp in Europe, occupying S Belarus and N Ukraine
  • productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
  • psychoanalyses — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
  • pull up stakes — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
  • quadrumvirates — Plural form of quadrumvirate.
  • quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
  • quasiparticles — Plural form of quasiparticle.
  • questionnaires — Plural form of questionnaire.
  • quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
  • rafferty rules — no rules at all
  • rags to riches — You use rags to riches to describe the way in which someone quickly becomes very rich after they have been quite poor.
  • rainbow series — (publication)   Any of several series of technical manuals distinguished by cover colour. The original rainbow series was the NCSC security manuals (see Orange Book, crayola books); the term has also been commonly applied to the PostScript reference set (see Red Book, Green Book, Blue Book, White Book). Which books are meant by ""the" rainbow series" unqualified is thus dependent on one's local technical culture.
  • rangeley lakes — chain of lakes in W Me. & NE N.H.
  • recent changes — Recent changes to FOLDOC.
  • rene descartes — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1596–1650, French philosopher and mathematician.
  • rolling stones — the. British rock group (formed 1962): comprising Mick Jagger, Keith Richards (born 1943; guitar, vocals), Brian Jones (1942–69; guitar), Charlie Watts (born 1941; drums), Bill Wyman (born 1936; bass guitar; now retired), and subsequently Mick Taylor (born 1948; guitar; with the group 1969–74) and Ron Wood (born 1947; guitar; with the group from 1975)
  • safe as houses — If you say that something or someone is as safe as houses, you mean that they are completely safe.
  • sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
  • sidi-bel-abbes — a city in NW Algeria.
  • skin and bones — a condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation: Anorexia had reduced her to skin and bones.
  • small potatoes — a person or thing of little significance, importance, or value: His salary was small potatoes for an executive of his ability.
  • social studies — a course of instruction in an elementary or secondary school comprising such subjects as history, geography, civics, etc.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • special forces — crack military team
  • spiritualities — church property or revenue or a Church benefice
  • st. catharines — a city in SE Ontario, in SE Canada.
  • state services — services appointed to commemorate days of national celebration or deliverance such as the accession of a sovereign
  • sub-treasuries — a subordinate or branch treasury.
  • subconsciouses — existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness: the subconscious self. Compare preconscious, unconscious.
  • subjectivities — the state or quality of being subjective; subjectiveness.
  • sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
  • summer clothes — light clothes which are suitable for summer
  • sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • take liberties — If you take liberties or take a liberty with someone or something, you act in a way that is too free and does not show enough respect.
  • 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
  • technicalities — technical methods and vocabulary
  • tender mercies — discretion or compassion
  • the all whites — the former name for the international soccer team of New Zealand
  • the beatitudes — the pronouncements in the Sermon on the Mount, which begin “Blessed are the poor in spirit”: Matt. 5:3-12
  • the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
  • the grenadines — a chain of about 600 islets in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands, extending for about 100 km (60 miles) between St Vincent and Grenada and divided administratively between the two states. Largest island: Carriacou
  • the humanities — the study of literature, philosophy, and the arts
  • the joe blakes — the DT's
  • the july sales — a traditional retail event occurring in the month of July, when shops sell things at less than their normal price
  • the stannaries — a tin-mining district of Devon and Cornwall, formerly under the jurisdiction of special courts
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