16-letter words containing d, a, r, e, s, y
- hydrophyllaceous — belonging to the Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family of plants.
- hydrostatic head — The hydrostatic head is the vertical height of a column of fluid.
- hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
- indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
- indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
- it is early days — Early means near the beginning of something such as a piece of work or a process.
- kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
- ladies auxiliary — an association whose members are usually the wives of members of an association with which it is affiliated.
- lady of pleasure — a prostitute.
- laserdisc player — a device that plays laserdiscs
- latter-day saint — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- lonely hearts ad — an advertisement placed by someone who is trying to find a lover or a friend
- measured daywork — a system of wage payment, usually determined by work-study techniques, whereby the wage of an employee is fixed on the understanding that a specific level of work performance will be maintained
- medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
- medullary sheath — Botany. a narrow zone made up of the innermost layer of woody tissue immediately surrounding the pith in plants.
- missionary ridge — a ridge in NW Georgia and SE Tennessee: Civil War battle 1863.
- mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- muddy the waters — If someone or something muddies the waters, they cause a situation or issue to seem less clear and less easy to understand.
- new year's (day) — Jan. 1, the first day of a calendar year, usually celebrated as a legal holiday
- nine-days wonder — something that arouses great interest, but only for a short period
- nondiscretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
- orange men's day — July 12, an annual celebration in Northern Ireland and certain cities having a large Irish section, especially Liverpool, to mark both the victory of William III over James II at the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690, and the Battle of Augbrim, July 12, 1690.
- parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- 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
- 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.
- play one's cards — to carry out one's plans; take action (esp in the phrase play one's cards right)
- pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
- radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
- ramsden eyepiece — an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex crown-glass lenses of equal focal length, placed with the convex sides facing each other and with a separation between the lenses of about two-thirds of the focal length of each.
- 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
- same-day service — (humour, operating system) An ironic term used to describe long response time, particularly with respect to MS-DOS system calls (which ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute). Such response time is a major incentive for programmers to write programs that are not well-behaved. See also PC-ism.
- 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 cancer — a cancerous growth in some part of the body away from the site of the original tumour
- secondary colour — a colour formed by mixing two primary colours
- 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 modern — Secondary moderns were schools which existed until recently in Britain for children aged between about eleven and sixteen, where more attention was paid to practical skills and less to academic study than in a grammar school.
- secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
- secondary school — a high school or a school of corresponding grade, ranking between a primary school and a college or university.
- secondary source — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- 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
- self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.