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15-letter words that end in l

  • cylinder barrel — the metal casting containing a cylinder of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
  • data link level — data link layer
  • dead on arrival — dead before reaching hospital
  • decatyl alcohol — decanol.
  • decollate snail — a cone-shaped, burrowing snail, Rumina decollata, that feeds on common brown garden snails.
  • decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
  • defence counsel — a barrister or group of barristers responsible for defending someone on trial
  • demonstrational — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
  • dessertspoonful — You can refer to an amount of food resting on a dessertspoon as a dessertspoonful of food.
  • detective novel — a novel in which a detective tries to solve a crime
  • dextrosinistral — left-handed, but having the right hand trained for writing.
  • dialectological — Of or relating to dialectology.
  • disproportional — not in proportion; disproportionate.
  • distress signal — a signal used, or designed to be used, by persons in peril, for the purpose of summoning aid, indicating their position, etc., as a radio code sign, aerial flare, flag hoist, or the like. Compare distress call (def 1).
  • divinity school — a Protestant seminary.
  • do oneself well — to achieve success for oneself
  • documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
  • domestic animal — an animal, as the horse or cat, that has been tamed and kept by humans as a work animal, food source, or pet, especially a member of those species that have, through selective breeding, become notably different from their wild ancestors.
  • double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • dress rehearsal — a rehearsal of a play or other performance in costume and with scenery, properties, and lights arranged and operated as for a performance: often the final rehearsal.
  • dressed to kill — woman: in stylish clothes
  • duelling pistol — one of a pair of identical pistols made specifically for use in duels
  • dysteleological — Of or pertaining to dysteleology.
  • ecclesiological — Of or pertaining to ecclesiology.
  • electrochemical — (chemistry) of, or relating to a chemical reaction brought about by electricity.
  • electronic mail — (messaging)   (e-mail) Messages automatically passed from one computer user to another, often through computer networks and/or via modems over telephone lines. A message, especially one following the common RFC 822 standard, begins with several lines of headers, followed by a blank line, and the body of the message. Most e-mail systems now support the MIME standard which allows the message body to contain "attachments" of different kinds rather than just one block of plain ASCII text. It is conventional for the body to end with a signature. Headers give the name and electronic mail address of the sender and recipient(s), the time and date when it was sent and a subject. There are many other headers which may get added by different message handling systems during delivery. The message is "composed" by the sender, usually using a special program - a "Mail User Agent" (MUA). It is then passed to some kind of "Message Transfer Agent" (MTA) - a program which is responsible for either delivering the message locally or passing it to another MTA, often on another host. MTAs on different hosts on a network often communicate using SMTP. The message is eventually delivered to the recipient's mailbox - normally a file on his computer - from where he can read it using a mail reading program (which may or may not be the same MUA as used by the sender). Contrast snail-mail, paper-net, voice-net. The form "email" is also common, but is less suggestive of the correct pronunciation and derivation than "e-mail". The word is used as a noun for the concept ("Isn't e-mail great?", "Are you on e-mail?"), a collection of (unread) messages ("I spent all night reading my e-mail"), and as a verb meaning "to send (something in) an e-mail message" ("I'll e-mail you (my report)"). The use of "an e-mail" as a count noun for an e-mail message, and plural "e-mails", is now (2000) also well established despite the fact that "mail" is definitely a mass noun. Oddly enough, the word "emailed" is actually listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. It means "embossed (with a raised pattern) or arranged in a net work". A use from 1480 is given. The word is derived from French "emmailleure", network. Also, "email" is German for enamel.
  • electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
  • eleutherodactyl — (of a bird) having the hind toe free
  • encyclopaedical — Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
  • endolymphangial — (anatomy) Within a lymphatic vessel.
  • endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
  • english channel — waterway between England and France
  • enterobacterial — relating to enterobacteria
  • entrepreneurial — Characterized by the taking of financial risks in the hope of profit; enterprising.
  • epidemiological — Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
  • epistemological — Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study.
  • estates general — States-General (sense 1)
  • ethylene glycol — a colorless, viscous liquid, HOCH2CH2OH, used as an antifreeze, as a solvent, in resins, etc.
  • exhibition hall — a hall in which pictures, sculptures, or other objects of interest are displayed
  • extended pascal — A superset of ANSI and ISO Pascal with many enhancements, including modules, separate compilation, type schemata, variable-length strings, direct-access files, complex numbers, initial values, constant expressions. ANSI/IEEE770X3.160-1989 and ISO 10206.
  • eye-level grill — a grill that is at eye level
  • fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
  • ferranti f100-l — (processor)   A processor, with 16-bit addressing, registers and data paths and a 1-bit serial ALU. The F100-L could only access 32K of memory (one address bit was used for indirection). It was designed by a British company for the British Military. The unique feature of the F100-L was that it had a complete control bus available for a coprocessor. Any instruction the F100-L couldn't decode was sent directly to the coprocessor for processing. Applications for coprocessors at the time were limited, but the design is still used in modern processors, such as the National Semiconductor 32000 series. The disk operating system was written by Alec Cawley.
  • fight city hall — to take up the apparently futile fight against petty or impersonal bureaucratic authority
  • five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
  • flannelled fool — a cricketer
  • florence fennel — a variety of fennel, Foeniculum vulgare azoricum, having enlarged leaf bases, which are blanched and used especially as an ingredient in salads.
  • flow of control — control flow
  • fly-on-the-wall — A fly-on-the-wall documentary is made by filming people as they do the things they normally do, rather than by interviewing them or asking them to talk directly to the camera.
  • flying squirrel — any of various nocturnal tree squirrels, as Glaucomys volans, of the eastern U.S., having folds of skin connecting the fore and hind legs, permitting long, gliding leaps.
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