16-letter words containing a, n, d, y, t, e
- psychic distance — the degree of emotional detachment maintained toward a person, group of people, event, etc.
- relative density — specific gravity.
- rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- safety standards — standards prescribed (by a regulatory body, etc) that must be adhered to to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
- sandstone quarry — a quarry from which sand is extracted
- second-story man — a burglar who enters through an upstairs window.
- secondary accent — a stress accent weaker than primary accent but stronger than lack of stress.
- secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
- secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
- secondary stress — Engineering. a stress induced by the elastic deformation of a structure under a temporary load.
- secondary tissue — tissue derived from cambium.
- sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
- situation comedy — a comedy drama, especially a television series made up of discrete episodes about the same group of characters, as members of a family.
- snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
- stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
- standing cypress — a plant, Ipomopsis rubra, of the southern U.S., having feathery leaves and clusters of red and yellow flowers.
- strawberry blond — reddish blond.
- summary judgment — a judgment, as in an action for debt, that is entered without the necessity of jury trial, based on affidavits of the creditor and debtor that convince the court that there is no arguable issue.
- tea and sympathy — a caring attitude, esp to someone in trouble
- tetrahydrozoline — a compound, C 13 H 16 N 2 , used in the treatment of nasal congestion and certain conditions of eye irritation.
- the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- the one and only — incomparable and unique
- the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
- to pay dividends — If something pays dividends, it brings advantages at a later date.
- to spend a penny — If someone says that they are going to spend a penny, they mean that they are going to go to the toilet.
- transcendentally — transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
- treaty of verdun — an agreement reached in 843 ad by three grandsons of Charlemagne, dividing his empire into an E kingdom (later Germany), a W kingdom (later France), and a middle kingdom (containing what became the Low Countries, Lorraine, Burgundy, and N Italy)
- turn a blind eye — pretend not to see sth
- uncoincidentally — happening by or resulting from coincidence; by chance: a coincidental meeting.
- unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- volatility index — beta (def 6).
- woody nightshade — bittersweet (def 3).
- yield management — the process of frequently adjusting the price of a product in response to various market factors, as demand or competition.