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14-letter words that end in le

  • disrespectable — not respectable.
  • diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
  • dodecasyllable — a word or line of verse containing 12 syllables.
  • double dribble — an infraction, resulting in loss of possession of the ball, occurring either when a player uses both hands simultaneously when dribbling or when a player interrupts a dribble by holding the ball momentarily in one or both hands.
  • draw-out table — draw table.
  • draw-top table — a table that can be extended by sliding one or more additional leaves into place
  • dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
  • dropper bottle — A dropper bottle is a container from which medicine is administered using a device that lets the medicine out in drops.
  • dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
  • eau de javelle — Javel water.
  • economic cycle — business cycle.
  • encaustic tile — a tile produced using the encaustic technique
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • english saddle — a lightweight saddle with a low cantle and pommel and no horn, designed to place the rider's weight forward onto the withers
  • etching needle — a type of needle used to etch patterns or designs on printing plates
  • exterior angle — an angle of a polygon contained between one side extended and the adjacent side
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • farm-gate sale — the sale of produce direct from the producer
  • feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
  • female-to-male — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity and gender expression is male.
  • fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
  • fiddler beetle — a black scarab beetle, Eupoecila australasiae, having markings resembling a violin.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.
  • fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
  • gate-leg table — a table having drop leaves supported by gate legs.
  • get the needle — to feel dislike, distaste, nervousness, or annoyance (for)
  • glancing angle — the angle between a ray incident on a plane surface and the surface, as of a beam of electrons incident on a crystal; the complement of the angle of incidence.
  • golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
  • goliath beetle — any very large tropical scarabaeid beetle of the genus Goliathus, esp G. giganteus of Africa, which may grow to a length of 20 centimetres
  • goose barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • gray sea eagle — a grayish-brown sea eagle, Haliaetus albicilla, of the Old World and Greenland, having a white tail.
  • guided missile — an aerial missile, as a rocket, steered during its flight by radio signals, clockwork controls, etc.
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
  • hendersonville — a city in S Tennessee.
  • heteroflexible — (of a person) predominantly heterosexual but not exclusively so
  • hit the bottle — a portable container for holding liquids, characteristically having a neck and mouth and made of glass or plastic.
  • homeric simile — a simile developed over several lines of verse, especially one used in an epic poem.
  • hotel de ville — a city hall.
  • humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
  • hybrid vehicle — A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle using two different forms of power, such as an electric motor and an internal combustion engine, or an electric motor with a battery and fuel cells for energy storage.
  • hydraulic pile — a hollow pile through which a jet of water is forced to wash away the ground beneath.
  • hyperexcitable — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
  • hyperirritable — extreme irritability.
  • hyperpermeable — Having higher than normal permeability.
  • ibm compatible — (computer)   A computer which can use hardware and software designed for the IBM PC (or, less often, IBM mainframes). This was once a key phrase in marketing a new PC clone but now in 1998 is rarely used, the non-IBM wintel personal computer manufacturers such as Compaq, Dell and Gateway 2000 and OS vendor Microsoft having taken control of the market, marginalising IBM.
  • imperial eagle — a brown eagle, Aquila heliaca, of Asia and southern Europe: the subspecies A. heliaca adalberti is endangered.
  • impressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • in fine fettle — If you say that someone or something is in fine fettle, you mean that they are in very good health or condition.
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