16-letter words containing a, n, u, d
- judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- judicial inquiry — a formal legal investigation conducted into a matter of public concern by a judge, appointed by the government
- jump up and down — bounce
- jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
- keep under wraps — not reveal
- kentucky windage — a method of correcting for windage, gravity, etc., by aiming a weapon to one side of the target instead of by adjusting the sights.
- kingdom-of-nubia — a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
- kiss and make up — be reconciled
- knuckle sandwich — a punch in the mouth with a clenched fist.
- labrador current — a cold ocean current flowing southwards off the coast of Labrador and meeting the warm Gulf Stream, causing dense fogs off the coast of Newfoundland
- 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.
- leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
- leaps and bounds — You can use in leaps and bounds or by leaps and bounds to emphasize that someone or something is improving or increasing quickly and greatly.
- lenticular cloud — a very smooth, round or oval, lens-shaped cloud that is often seen, singly or stacked in groups, near a mountain ridge.
- line of latitude — an imaginary line on a globe, map, etc, indicating latitude
- lizard peninsula — a promontory in SW England, in SW Cornwall: the southernmost point in Great Britain
- look up and down — to search everywhere
- lucas van leyden — (Lucas Hugensz) 1494–1533, Dutch painter and engraver.
- machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
- magellanic cloud — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
- mahmud of ghazni — a.d. 971?–1030, Muslim Amir of Ghazni 997–1030.
- man and superman — a comedy (1903) by G. B. Shaw.
- 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.
- manganese nodule — a small irregular concretion found on deep ocean floors having high concentrations of certain metals, esp manganese
- manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
- manufactured gas — a gaseous fuel created from coal, oil, etc., as differentiated from natural gas.
- many-plumed moth — a moth of the species, Alucita hexadactyla
- masculine ending — a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
- mass destruction — devastation on a large scale
- measuring device — gauge
- menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
- metes and bounds — the precisely described boundary lines of a parcel of land, as found in a deed
- miniature poodle — a breed of poodle, bred to be much smaller than standard poodles
- misunderestimate — (colloquial, malapropism, or, intentionally incorrect) To underestimate by mistake.
- misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
- modern languages — languages currently spoken
- modular language — (language) (Modula) Wirth's 1977 predecessor of Modula-2. The original Modula was, more oriented toward concurrent programming, but otherwise quite similar.
- money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
- month of sundays — a long time
- mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
- mountain dogwood — a dogwood tree, Cornus nuttallii, of western North America, having pointed, petallike white or pinkish bracts and clustered scarlet fruits.
- muddleheadedness — The state of being muddle-headed.
- 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.
- multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
- munchen-gladbach — former name of Mönchengladbach.
- mutatis mutandis — the necessary changes having been made.
- mutual impedance — the ratio of the potential difference between either of two pairs of terminals to the current applied at the other pair of terminals when the circuit is open.
- mutual induction — the production of an electromotive force in one circuit by a change in current in another circuit.