15-letter words containing l, a, d, y, s
- faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
- family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
- flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
- fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
- grandstand play — an ostentatious play, as in a sport, overemphasized deliberately to elicit applause from spectators.
- graphic display — the way in which line drawings and text are displayed
- hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
- hazard analysis — risk assessment
- head-up display — an electronic display of data from instruments or other sources projected at eye level so that a driver or pilot sees it without looking away from the road or course. Abbreviation: HUD.
- heaviside layer — E layer.
- hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
- hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
- heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- holiday clothes — the clothes worn and bought for travelling on holiday, such as swimwear, skiwear, or clothes for hot or cold weather, etc
- holyhead island — former name of Holy Island (def 2).
- homochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth in which the sepals and petals are fused together and indistinguishable
- hydraulic press — a machine permitting a small force applied to a small piston to produce, through fluid pressure, a large force on a large piston.
- hydrostatically — In a hydrostatic manner.
- hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
- hypersexualised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualise.
- hypersexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualize.
- idiosyncratical — Alternative form of idiosyncratic.
- in the old days — a long time ago
- inadmissibility — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
- inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- it's early days — If you say about something that might be true that it is early days, you mean that it is too soon for you to be completely sure about it.
- jubilate-sunday — Also called Jubilate Sunday. the third Sunday after Easter: so called from the first word of the 65th Psalm in the Vulgate, which is used as the introit.
- kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
- kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie
- keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
- labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
- lackadaisically — without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic: a lackadaisical attempt.
- ladies' gallery — a gallery in the old House of Commons set aside for women spectators
- lady's bedstraw — a Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium verum, with clusters of small yellow flowers
- lady's-earrings — any of several plants having pendent flowers thought to resemble earrings, as the jewelweed or the fuchsia.
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
- lesser dionysia — (in ancient Attica) the wine feasts, processions, and dramatic performances composing one of the festivals honoring Dionysus, held in the middle of December.
- leyland cypress — a fast-growing cypress, Cupressocyparis leylandii, that is a hybrid produced by crossing the macrocarpa with the Nootka cypress (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis): widely grown for hedging
- look-say method — a method of teaching beginners to read by memorizing and recognizing whole words, rather than by associating letters with sounds
- lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
- loyalty islands — a group of coral islands in the S Pacific belonging to the French territory of New Caledonia. 761 sq. mi. (1970 sq. km).
- master cylinder — the hydraulic pump of an automotive braking system that contains a cylinder and one or two pistons, is actuated by the brake pedal, and supplies hydraulic fluid under pressure to the brakes at each wheel.
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- mid-lent sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs