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16-letter words containing a, n, d, r, e

  • lakeland terrier — one of a breed of small, slender terriers, raised originally in northwestern England for hunting foxes.
  • land-poor farmer — a farmer who owns much unprofitable land and lacks the money to maintain its fertility or improve it
  • landed immigrant — foreigner: permanent resident
  • latter-day saint — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • laurel and hardy — a team of US film comedians, Stan Laurel, 1890–1965, born in Britain, the thin one, and his partner, Oliver Hardy, 1892–1957, the fat one
  • laurentides park — a national park in SE Canada, in Quebec province between the St. Lawrence and Lake St. John.
  • lay intermediary — a layperson who is interposed between a lawyer and client to prevent the existence of a direct relationship between them.
  • leap in the dark — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
  • led page printer — LED printer
  • left-hand dagger — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
  • legal department — the department that deals with legal matters
  • legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
  • lenticular cloud — a very smooth, round or oval, lens-shaped cloud that is often seen, singly or stacked in groups, near a mountain ridge.
  • 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).
  • lettre de change — bill of exchange.
  • 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.
  • limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
  • limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
  • little englander — an English person who believes the best interests of Britain are served by attention to Britain itself, rather than to the concerns of the empire.
  • lizard peninsula — a promontory in SW England, in SW Cornwall: the southernmost point in Great Britain
  • lonely hearts ad — an advertisement placed by someone who is trying to find a lover or a friend
  • lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
  • 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.
  • machine readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
  • machine-readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
  • mainstream media — newspapers, magazines, television, and radio, as opposed to social media
  • maleic anhydride — a colorless crystalline, unsaturated compound, C 4 H 2 O 3 , that is soluble in acetone and hydrolyzes in water: used in the production of polyester resins, pesticides, and fumaric and tartaric acids.
  • man and superman — a comedy (1903) by G. B. Shaw.
  • man of few words — man who speaks very little
  • man of the world — a man who is widely experienced in the ways of the world and people; an urbane, sophisticated man.
  • managed currency — a currency whose value is established and maintained by deliberate governmental action working through national and international financial institutions, in contrast to the quasi-automatic gold standard.
  • mandarin chinese — the official language of China since 1917; the form of Chinese spoken by about two thirds of the population and taught in schools throughout China
  • manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
  • manic depression — bipolar disorder.
  • manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
  • manufactured gas — a gaseous fuel created from coal, oil, etc., as differentiated from natural gas.
  • maritime command — the naval branch of the Canadian armed forces
  • market gardening — Chiefly British. truck farm.
  • marmalade orange — a bitter variety of orange suitable for making marmalade
  • mass destruction — devastation on a large scale
  • matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
  • measuring device — gauge
  • media atropatene — an ancient region in NW Iran, formerly a part of Media.
  • medical examiner — a physician or other person trained in medicine who is appointed by a city, county, or the like, to perform autopsies on the bodies of persons supposed to have died from unnatural causes and to investigate the cause and circumstances of such deaths.
  • medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
  • melodic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
  • menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
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