14-letter words containing lit
- permissibility — that can be permitted; allowable: a permissible amount of sentimentality under the circumstances; Such behavior is not permissible!
- pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
- polarizability — to cause polarization in.
- polite society — sophisticated company
- politicization — to bring a political character or flavor to; make political: to politicize a private dispute.
- power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
- practicability — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
- pre-raphaelite — any of a group of English artists (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) formed in 1848, and including Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who aimed to revive the style and spirit of the Italian artists before the time of Raphael.
- predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
- presentability — that may be presented.
- 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.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- productibility — the ability to produce
- protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- public utility — a business enterprise, as a public-service corporation, performing an essential public service and regulated by the federal, state, or local government. Compare utility (def 3).
- pulitzer prize — one of a group of annual prizes in journalism, literature, music, etc., established by Joseph Pulitzer: administered by Columbia University; first awarded 1917.
- putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
- quality circle — a group of workers performing similar duties who meet periodically to discuss work-related problems, offer suggestions for improved production or product quality, etc.
- quality factor — a property of ionizing radiations that affects their ability to cause biological effects. For weakly ionizing radiations such as gamma rays it has value 1 whilst for alpha rays it is about 20
- quality system — A quality system is a structure for managing the quality of the output of a manufacturer.
- quality-assure — to ensure the quality of: Measures are in place to quality-assure our data.
- quasi-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- quite a little — striking, outstanding
- re-eligibility — the quality or state of being re-eligible
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable
- referentiality — the quality or state of being referential or containing references
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- rehabilitation — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- rehabilitative — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- relocatability — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
- replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- repressibility — the quality or condition of being repressible
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- retractability — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
- retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- road stability — the extent to which a motor vehicle is stable and does not skid, esp at high speeds, or on sharp bends or wet roads
- sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- satellite city — new town.
- satellite dish — dish (def 8).
- satellite link — a link between a transmitting station and a receiving station via an artificial satellite
- self-stability — the state or quality of being stable.
- sentimentality — the quality or state of being sentimental or excessively sentimental.
- serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
- sesquipedality — given to using long words.
- side-splitting — convulsively uproarious: sidesplitting laughter.