16-letter words containing a, e, d, i, l, s
- lesser celandine — a Eurasian plant, Ranunculus ficaria, of the buttercup family, having heart-shaped leaves and glossy yellow flowers, naturalized in North America.
- lesser sanhedrin — Sanhedrin (def 2).
- lewis and harris — the northernmost island of the Hebrides, in NW Scotland. 825 sq. mi. (2135 sq. km).
- lightheartedness — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- lizard peninsula — a promontory in SW England, in SW Cornwall: the southernmost point in Great Britain
- long-established — having a long history; old
- lord howe island — an island in the S Pacific, E of Australia: a dependency of New South Wales. 5 sq. mi. (13 sq. km).
- lords-and-ladies — (used with a singular verb) cuckoopint.
- mail-order house — a retail firm that conducts its business by receiving orders and shipping its merchandise through the mail and that supplies its customers with catalogs, circulars, etc.
- malicious damage — Malicious damage is damage caused on purpose to the property of another person.
- masculine ending — a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
- mason-dixon line — the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, partly surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon between 1763 and 1767, popularly considered before the end of slavery as a line of demarcation between free and slave states.
- matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
- mayfield heights — a city in N Ohio, near Cleveland.
- medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
- medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
- medieval studies — a course of study based on the history of the Middle Ages
- menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
- metasilicic acid — the hypothetical acid H2SiO3
- michaelmas daisy — an aster.
- middelmannetjies — Plural form of middelmannetjie.
- middle latitudes — the latitude of the point that is midway between two parallels on the same side of the equator.
- middle stone age — the Mesolithic period.
- miller's disease — osteofibrosis of horses due to low concentration of phosphorus in the blood caused by eating bran exclusively
- mineral deposits — amounts of minerals that occur naturally in particular areas
- modified-release — denoting a formulation of a medicinal drug taken orally that releases the active ingredients over several hours, in order to maintain a relatively constant plasma concentration of the drug
- most wanted list — an actual or supposed listing of the names of persons who are urgently being sought for a specific reason, as apprehension for an alleged crime.
- multidimensional — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
- natural disaster — meteorological or geological catastrophe
- no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
- nusslein-volhard — Christiane [kris-tee-ah-nuh,, kris-tyah-] /ˌkrɪs tiˈɑ nə,, krɪsˈtyɑ-/ (Show IPA), born 1942, German biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
- oligosaccharides — Plural form of oligosaccharide.
- panel discussion — a formal discussion before an audience for which the topic, speakers, etc., have been selected in advance.
- parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- pass-band filter — band-pass filter
- pays de la loire — a region of W France, on the Bay of Biscay: generally low-lying, drained by the River Loire and its tributaries; agricultural
- pearls of wisdom — good advice, wise words
- pelagian islands — a group of Italian islands (Lampedusa, Linosa, and Lampione) in the Mediterranean, between Tunisia and Malta. Pop: 6066 (2004 est). Area: about 27 sq km (11 sq miles)
- pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
- pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium
- personal details — details about a person such as their name and address
- persulfuric acid — Also called Caro's acid, permonosulfuric acid, peroxymonosulfuric acid, peroxysulfuric acid. a white, crystalline solid, H 2 SO 5 , used as an oxidizing agent for certain organic compounds.
- phase modulation — radio transmission in which the carrier wave is modulated by changing its phase to transmit the amplitude and pitch of the signal.
- physical address — (memory management) The address presented to a computer's main memory in a virtual memory system, in contrast to the virtual address which is the address generated by the CPU. A memory management unit translates virtual addresses into physical addresses.
- pins and needles — a tingly, prickly sensation in a limb that is recovering from numbness.
- pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
- poisoned chalice — If you refer to a job or an opportunity as a poisoned chalice, you mean that it seems to be very attractive but you believe it will lead to failure.
- polycondensation — formation of a polymer by chemical condensation with the elimination of a small molecule, such as water.