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16-letter words containing c, e, d

  • in quadruplicate — in four identical copies
  • in the ascendant — If someone or something is in the ascendant, they have or are getting more power, influence, or popularity than other people or things.
  • incidental music — music intended primarily to point up or accompany parts of the action of a play or to serve as transitional material between scenes.
  • inclined railway — a cable railway used on particularly steep inclines unsuitable for normal adhesion locomotives
  • incommodiousness — The state or quality of being incommodious.
  • incontinence pad — an absorbent pad used by incontinent people
  • incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
  • incorrespondence — Lack of correspondence; failure to correspond or match up; disagreement; disproportion.
  • indecency charge — an accusation of committing indecency
  • indecent assault — a sexual offense, other than rape, committed by one person against another.
  • indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
  • independence day — July 4, a U.S. holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
  • indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
  • indexing service — a service that indexes the contents of a number of publications for use in printed or machine-readable form.
  • indian liquorice — a woody leguminous climbing plant, Abrus precatorius, native to tropical Asia and naturalized elsewhere, having scarlet black-spotted poisonous seeds, used as beads, and roots used as a substitute for liquorice
  • indirect address — the address in a storage location that contains the actual machine address of a data item or of other information, as the next instruction, or that contains another indirect address.
  • indirect primary — a primary in which members of a party elect delegates to a party convention that in turn elects the party's candidates.
  • indiscernibility — The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.
  • indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
  • indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
  • induced topology — a topology of a subset of a topological space, obtained by intersecting the subset with every open set in the topology of the space.
  • induction course — training for new job
  • induction stroke — The induction stroke is the stroke of the piston in an internal combustion engine in which working fluid is drawn into the cylinder.
  • infant education — (in England and Wales) education provided for children at infant schools
  • infinite decimal — nonterminating decimal.
  • infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
  • informed consent — a patient's consent to a medical or surgical procedure or to participation in a clinical study after being properly advised of the relevant medical facts and the risks involved.
  • intellectualised — Simple past tense and past participle of intellectualise.
  • intellectualized — Simple past tense and past participle of intellectualize.
  • interdependences — Plural form of interdependence.
  • interlaced image — progressive coding
  • it's no accident — You begin a sentence with 'it's no accident' if you want to suggest that something was done deliberately or has a logical explanation, although it might give the impression of having happened by chance.
  • j. random hacker — (jargon)   /J rand'm hak'r/ MIT jargon for a mythical figure; the archetypal hacker nerd. This may originally have been inspired by "J. Fred Muggs", a show-biz chimpanzee whose name was a household word back in the early days of TMRC, and was probably influenced by J. Presper Eckert (one of the co-inventors of the electronic computer). See random, Suzie COBOL.
  • judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • judas maccabaeus — Judas or Judah [joo-duh] /ˈdʒu də/ (Show IPA), ("the Hammer") died c. 160 b.c, Judean patriot, one of the Maccabees: military leader 166–160 (son of Mattathias).
  • jude the obscure — a novel (1895) by Thomas Hardy.
  • 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.
  • kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
  • kit and caboodle — a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
  • knuckle sandwich — a punch in the mouth with a clenched fist.
  • kurdaitcha shoes — (in certain Central Australian Aboriginal tribes) the emu-feather shoes worn by the kurdaitcha on his mission so that his footsteps may not be traced
  • l-glyceraldehyde — the levorotatory optical isomer of glyceraldehyde.
  • la rochefoucauld — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.
  • 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
  • laodicea ad mare — the chief port of Syria, in the northwest: tobacco industry. Pop: 486 000 (2005 est) (Latin name)
  • laserdisc player — a device that plays laserdiscs
  • lead(ii) acetate — a white crystalline toxic solid used in dyeing cotton and in making varnishes and enamels. Formula: Pb(CH3CO)2
  • leconte de lisle — Charles Marie [sharl ma-ree] /ʃarl maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1818–94, French poet.
  • 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.
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