16-letter words that end in le
- sleep-wake cycle — Physiology. the species-specific biological pattern of alternating sleep and wakefulness, in humans roughly 8 hours of nocturnal sleep and 16 hours of daytime activity.
- south sea bubble — the financial crash that occurred in 1720 after the South Sea Company had taken over the national debt in return for a monopoly of trade with the South Seas, causing feverish speculation in their stocks
- standoff missile — a missile capable of striking a distant target after launch by an aircraft outside the range of missile defences
- stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
- stick out a mile — to be extremely obvious
- stinging capsule — a nematocyst.
- strange particle — any elementary particle with a strangeness quantum number other than zero.
- sulfamethoxazole — an antimicrobial substance, C 1 0 H 1 1 N 3 O 3 S, used against a variety of susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms, as in the treatment of certain urinary tract infections and skin infections.
- superserviceable — overly disposed to be of service; officious.
- synchronous idle — (character) (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22.
- take the trouble — If you take the trouble to do something, you do something which requires a small amount of additional effort.
- the first couple — the US president and their spouse
- the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
- thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.
- to move a muscle — If you say that someone did not move a muscle, you mean that they stayed absolutely still.
- toad-in-the-hole — a dish consisting of beef or pork sausages baked in a coating of batter.
- trapezoidal rule — a numerical method for evaluating the area between a curve and an axis by approximating the area with the areas of trapezoids.
- two-stroke cycle — See under two-cycle.
- un-reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
- unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
- uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- uncontradictable — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
- undifferentiable — capable of being differentiated.
- unimpressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- ununderstandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- upsilon particle — the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ).
- virtual particle — an elementary particle of transitory existence that does not appear as a free particle in a particular situation but that can transmit a force from one particle to another.
- voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
- warning triangle — a triangle placed by a broken-down car to warn motorists to avoid it
- wheel animalcule — a rotifer.
- whirligig beetle — any of numerous aquatic beetles of the family Gyrinidae, commonly seen in groups circling about rapidly on the surface of the water.
- whole-tone scale — a scale progressing entirely by whole tones, as C, D, E, F♯, G♯, A♯, C.
- wild honeysuckle — pinxter flower.
- winchester rifle — a type of magazine rifle, first made in about 1866.
- worth your while — If an action or activity is worth someone's while, it will be helpful, useful, or enjoyable for them if they do it, even though it requires some effort.