16-letter words that end in le
- customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
- cystourethrocele — A urethrocele occurring with a cystocele.
- dead-smooth file — the smoothest grade of file commonly used
- definite article — The word 'the' is sometimes called the definite article.
- designer stubble — (on a man) facial hair that is carefully trimmed to give what is thought to be an attractive rugged slightly unshaven look
- devil's triangle — Bermuda Triangle.
- droves of people — large numbers of people
- dumont d'urville — Jules Sébastien César [zhyl sey-bas-tyan sey-zar] /ʒül seɪ basˈtyɛ̃ seɪˈzar/ (Show IPA), 1790–1842, French naval officer: explored South Pacific and Antarctic.
- economy of scale — a fall in average costs resulting from an increase in the scale of production
- electric vehicle — An electric vehicle is a vehicle that is driven by an electric motor which draws its current either from storage batteries or from overhead cables.
- entente cordiale — a friendly understanding between political powers: less formal than an alliance
- eternal triangle — You use the eternal triangle to refer to a relationship involving love and jealousy between two men and a woman or two women and a man.
- expansion bottle — a tank collecting coolant from a radiator while an engine is heated, and from which the coolant returns to the radiator when the engine cools
- experience table — an actuarial table, esp a mortality table based on past statistics
- fahrenheit scale — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
- four-minute mile — a mile-long race run in four minutes or less
- freezing drizzle — drizzle that falls as a liquid but freezes into glaze or rime upon contact with the ground.
- geological cycle — Geology. a continuous process by which rocks are created, changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed again.
- germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
- get into trouble — be punished for wrongdoing
- goldsmith beetle — a brilliant golden scarabaeid beetle, Cetonia aurata, of Europe.
- grasp the nettle — If you grasp the nettle, you deal with a problem, or do something that is unpleasant, quickly and in a determined way.
- great-granduncle — an uncle of one's grandfather or grandmother.
- hawksbill turtle — a sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, the shell of which is the source of tortoise shell: an endangered species.
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
- honeymoon couple — a newly-married couple who are on their honeymoon
- hot-water bottle — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
- humanly possible — feasible, practical
- hunt the thimble — a children's game in which the players look for a hidden thimble
- hydrologic cycle — the natural sequence through which water passes into the atmosphere as water vapor, precipitates to earth in liquid or solid form, and ultimately returns to the atmosphere through evaporation.
- hypersusceptible — hypersensitive (def 2).
- hyperthermophile — (biology) An organism that lives and thrives in an extremely hot environment, such as a deep sea smoker vent; often a member of the Archaea.
- in the meanwhile — until then, for now
- incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
- incontrovertible — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
- inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
- interconvertible — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- internal capsule — a broad band of white fibres near the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere
- kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
- king james bible — Authorized Version.
- kit and caboodle — a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
- krebs urea cycle — urea cycle.
- leconte de lisle — Charles Marie [sharl ma-ree] /ʃarl maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1818–94, French poet.
- lily-of-the-nile — a plant, Agapanthus africanus, of the amaryllis family, native to Africa, having large umbels of blue flowers.
- little by little — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- longicorn beetle — any beetle of the family Cerambycidae, having a long narrow body, long legs, and long antennae
- mach's principle — the proposition that there is no absolute space and that the inertia and acceleration of a body are determined by all of the matter of the universe.
- machine readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
- machine washable — suitable for washing in a washing machine