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14-letter words containing l, a

  • artificialness — the condition of being non-natural, unnatural or spurious
  • as all get-out — to a considerable degree; greatly
  • as big as life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
  • as you like it — a comedy (1599?) by Shakespeare.
  • ash can school — a group of US painters including Robert Henri and later George Bellows, founded in 1907, noted for their depiction of the sordid aspects of city life
  • asiatic beetle — a Japanese scarabaeid beetle, Anomala orientalis, introduced into Hawaii and the northeastern US: a serious pest of sugar cane and cereal crops because it destroys the roots
  • asphalt jungle — an expression used to refer to a city environment, which emphasizes its dangerous nature
  • assault course — An assault course is an area of land covered with obstacles such as walls which people, especially soldiers, use to improve their skills and strength.
  • assault jacket — a protective jacketlike garment, armored so as to resist bullets, knives, etc., worn especially by police officers for defense against attack.
  • assault troops — soldiers of the infantry who are specially trained to lead an attack
  • assault weapon — any of various automatic and semiautomatic military firearms utilizing an intermediate-power cartridge, designed for individual use. Compare assault rifle.
  • assaultiveness — the condition of being assaultive
  • 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.
  • assert oneself — to insist on one's rights, or on being recognized
  • assessed value — the value of something as determined by an assessor, especially the value of real property.
  • asseveratingly — in an asseverating or affirming manner
  • assimilability — the capacity to be assimilated or made similar
  • assisted place — a place at a private school reserved for a pupil from a family with a low income, with the fees paid by the government
  • associableness — The state or quality of being associable.
  • astrobiologist — a person who studies astrobiology
  • astrogeologist — a person who studies astrogeology
  • astrolithology — The science of aerolites.
  • 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.
  • at a loose end — If you are at a loose end, you are bored because you do not have anything to do and cannot think of anything that you want to do. In American English, you usually say that you are at loose ends.
  • at close range — If you see or hit something at close range or from close range, you are very close to it when you see it or hit it. If you do something at a range of half a mile, for example, you are half a mile away from it when you do it.
  • at first blush — when first seen; as a first impression
  • at full length — stretched out; completely extended
  • at loggerheads — If two or more people or groups are at loggerheads, they disagree very strongly with each other.
  • at one's elbow — within easy reach
  • at one's heels — just behind or following closely
  • at one's peril — If you say that someone does something at their peril, you are warning them that they will probably suffer as a result of doing it.
  • at&t bell labs — Bell Laboratories
  • athlete's foot — Athlete's foot is a fungal infection in which the skin between the toes becomes cracked or peels off.
  • athletic coach — a person qualified to train athletes
  • athletic heart — nonpathological enlargement of the heart resulting from intensive aerobic exercise.
  • atlantic liner — a large passenger ship that regularly crosses the Atlantic Ocean
  • atlantic ocean — the world's second largest ocean, bounded in the north by the Arctic, in the south by the Antarctic, in the west by North and South America, and in the east by Europe and Africa. Greatest depth: 9220 m (30 246 ft). Area: about 81 585 000 sq km (31 500 000 sq miles)
  • atlas autocode — (language)   The Autocode for the Ferranti Atlas, which may have been the first commercial computer with hardware-paged virtual memory. Whereas other autocodes were basically assembly languages, Atlas Autocode was high-level and block-structured, resembling a cross between Fortran and ALGOL 60. It had call-by value, loops, declarations, complex numbers, pointers, heap and stack storage generators, dynamic arrays, and extensible syntax.
  • atomic orbital — Physics, Chemistry. a wave function describing the state of a single electron in an atom (atomic orbital) or in a molecule (molecular orbital) the electron in that state.
  • atrial flutter — irregular heart rhythm
  • attainableness — The state or quality of being attainable.
  • attemptability — the capability of being attempted or condition of being attemptable
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