14-letter words containing lli
- slant drilling — Slant drilling is drilling at an angle of usually 30° to 45°.
- smelling salts — a preparation for smelling, essentially of ammonium carbonate with some agreeable scent, used as a stimulant and restorative.
- spelling error — an error in the conventionally accepted form of spelling a word
- spine-chilling — very frightening or horrifying.
- stalling angle — critical angle (def 2).
- streptobacilli — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- string-pulling — the use of one's influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
- switch selling — a system of selling, now illegal in Britain, whereby potential customers are attracted by a special offer on some goods but the salesman's real aim is to sell other more expensive goods instead
- thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
- tiruchirapalli — a city in central Tamil Nadu, in S India, on the Kaveri River.
- uncrystallized — lacking a final form
- unintelligence — deficient in intelligence; dull; stupid.
- unintelligible — not intelligible; not capable of being understood.
- unintelligibly — not intelligible; not capable of being understood.
- wall pellitory — pellitory (sense 1)
- wellingborough — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire. Pop: 46 959 (2001)
- whachamacallit — an object or person whose name one does not know or cannot recall.
- whaddayacallit — A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember.
- william bowman — William Scott ("Scotty") born 1933, Canadian hockey coach.
- william gibson — (person) Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual Light (1993). Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal "cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificial intelligence from its programmed bounds, won the Hugo and Nebula science fiction awards and is credited as the seminal cyberpunk novel and the origin of the term "cyberspace". Gibson does not have a technical background and supposedly purchased his first computer in 1992.
- yellow-bellied — having a yellow abdomen or underside.