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16-letter words containing d, a, t, e, r, m

  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • fourth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting unlawful search and seizure of personal property.
  • frederic mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
  • fund supermarket — an online facility offering discounted investment opportunities and advice
  • fundamental star — one of a number of stars with positions that have been determined accurately and that are used as reference stars for the determination of positions of other celestial objects.
  • garden apartment — an apartment on the ground floor of an apartment building having direct access to a backyard or garden.
  • garment district — an area in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, including portions of Seventh Avenue and Broadway between 34th and 40th Streets and the streets intersecting them, that contains many factories, showrooms, etc., related to the design, manufacture, and wholesale distribution of clothing.
  • gaudeamus igitur — let us therefore rejoice
  • gender-normative — cisgender.
  • gentleman friend — a man with whom a woman is romantically involved; suitor.
  • give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
  • gold star mother — an American woman whose son or daughter has died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
  • governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
  • grant-maintained — funded by national government
  • hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
  • hard times token — any of a series of U.S. copper tokens, issued 1834–41, bearing a political inscription or advertising message and serving as currency during coin shortages.
  • have a hard time — experience difficulties
  • head arrangement — a roughly outlined musical arrangement that is played from memory and is often learned by ear.
  • headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
  • headmistressship — (rare) Alternative form of headmistress-ship.
  • hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
  • heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
  • hydrated alumina — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, Al(OH) 3 or Al 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, obtained chiefly from bauxite: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, and printing inks, in dyeing, and in medicine as an antacid and in the treatment of ulcers.
  • hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
  • hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
  • immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
  • implied warranty — a warranty not stated explicitly by the seller of merchandise or real property but presumed for reasons of commercial or legal custom (distinguished from express warranty).
  • indirect primary — a primary in which members of a party elect delegates to a party convention that in turn elects the party's candidates.
  • indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
  • indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
  • information desk — helpdesk, information point
  • interdimensional — Between dimensions.
  • interlaced image — progressive coding
  • intermediateness — The condition of being intermediate.
  • intradermal test — a test for immunity or allergy to a particular antigen by observing the local reaction following injection of a small amount of the antigen into the skin.
  • landed immigrant — foreigner: permanent resident
  • lay intermediary — a layperson who is interposed between a lawyer and client to prevent the existence of a direct relationship between them.
  • legal department — the department that deals with legal matters
  • liberal democrat — In Britain, a Liberal Democrat is a member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
  • limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
  • limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
  • macrolepidoptera — a collector's name for that part of the lepidoptera that comprises the butterflies and the larger moths (noctuids, geometrids, bombycids, springtails, etc): a term without taxonomic significance
  • madame butterfly — an opera (1904) by Giacomo Puccini.
  • mainstream media — newspapers, magazines, television, and radio, as opposed to social media
  • maitre de ballet — ballet master.
  • majority verdict — a decision supported by more than half, but not all, the jury
  • man of the world — a man who is widely experienced in the ways of the world and people; an urbane, sophisticated man.
  • manufactured gas — a gaseous fuel created from coal, oil, etc., as differentiated from natural gas.
  • margaret drabble — Margaret, born 1939, English novelist.
  • maritime command — the naval branch of the Canadian armed forces
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