15-letter words containing ls
- language skills — the ability to use language
- meals on wheels — a program, usually one supported or subsidized by a charitable, social, or government agency, for delivering hot meals regularly to elderly, disabled, or convalescing persons who are housebound and cannot cook for themselves.
- menomonee falls — a city in SE Wisconsin, NW of Milwaukee.
- multnomah falls — a waterfall on Multnomah Creek in NW Oregon, E of Portland. 611 feet (186 meters) high.
- non-falsifiable — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- on the heels of — the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
- peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
- pilsner glass's — a pale, light lager beer.
- pixels per inch — (unit, graphics) (ppi) The unit used to measure resolution of a bitmap display or video input device.
- pulsejet engine — a jet engine equipped with valves that continuously open to admit air, then close during combustion, giving a pulsating thrust: used to power the V-1, a German buzz bomb, in World War II.
- quarrelsomeness — The quality of being quarrelsome; an argumentative nature. (from 17th c.).
- red blood cells — Physiology. one of the cells of the blood, which in mammals are enucleate disks concave on both sides, contain hemoglobin, and carry oxygen to the cells and tissues and carbon dioxide back to the respiratory organs. Abbreviation: RBC.
- reversing falls — a series of rapids in the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada, the flow of which regularly reverses itself owing to the force an incoming tide
- rochester hills — city in SE Mich., near Detroit: pop. 69,000
- rumpelstiltskin — a dwarf in a German folktale who spins flax into gold for a young woman to meet the demands of the prince she has married, on the condition that she give him her first child or else guess his name: she guesses his name and he vanishes or destroys himself in a rage.
- self-propulsion — propulsion by a vehicle's own engine, motor, or the like.
- starting stalls — a line of stalls in which horses are enclosed at the start of a race and from which they are released by the simultaneous springing open of retaining barriers at the front of each stall
- stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
- summer solstice — the solstice on or about June 21st that marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
- tilsit (cheese) — a semihard, mild to sharp cheese with many small holes, made from cow's milk
- training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
- true-false test — a test requiring one to mark statements as true or false.
- tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
- tyrwhitt-wilson — Gerald Hugh, 14th Baron Berners [bur-nerz] /ˈbɜr nərz/ (Show IPA), 1883–1950, English composer, painter, and author.
- welsbach burner — a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame
- wilson's petrel — a small petrel, Oceanites oceanicus, that breeds in the Southern Hemisphere but ranges into the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
- wilson's thrush — veery.
- winter solstice — the solstice on or about December 21st that marks the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere.