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15-letter words containing d, a, y, n, m, e

  • identity matrix — a matrix that has 1 in each position on the main diagonal and 0 in all other positions.
  • imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
  • in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
  • incendiary bomb — a bomb that is designed to start fires
  • indeterminately — not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain.
  • indian mulberry — a small tree, Morinda citrifolia, of the madder family, found from India to Australasia, having shiny leaves, white flowers, and fleshy, yellowish fruit, yielding red and yellow dyes.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
  • lymphadenectomy — the excision of one or more lymph nodes, usually as a procedure in the surgical removal or destruction of a cancer.
  • lymphadenopathy — chronically swollen lymph nodes.
  • managed economy — an economy in which the government allocates prices of goods and resources
  • marfan syndrome — a hereditary disorder characterized by abnormally elongated bones, especially in the extremities, hypermotility of the joints, and circulatory and eye abnormalities.
  • marie byrd land — former name of Byrd Land.
  • master cylinder — the hydraulic pump of an automotive braking system that contains a cylinder and one or two pistons, is actuated by the brake pedal, and supplies hydraulic fluid under pressure to the brakes at each wheel.
  • maternity dress — a dress worn by a pregnant woman and which is designed to allow for the changes in body size which take place during pregnancy
  • mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.
  • medullary canal — the central area of a bone, containing marrow
  • methylphenidate — a central nervous system stimulant, C 1 4 H 1 9 NO 2 , used in the control of hyperkinetic syndromes and narcolepsy.
  • mid-lent sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
  • minority leader — the party member who directs the activities of the minority party on the floor of a legislative body, as of the U.S. Congress.
  • mixolydian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from G to G.
  • monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
  • monospaced type — a typeface in which the width of all letters, including the space around them, is the same
  • non-documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • nonjudgmentally — not judged or judging on the basis of one's personal standards or opinions: They tried to adopt a nonjudgmental attitude that didn't reflect their own biases. My guidance counselor in high school was sympathetic and nonjudgmental.
  • normally-closed — Normally-closed switch contacts are in a closed state at rest.
  • orangeman's day — the 12th of July, celebrated by Protestants in Northern Ireland to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne (1690)
  • orangemen'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.
  • ordinary income — taxable income, as salary and wages, other than capital gains.
  • ordinary seaman — a seaman insufficiently skilled to be classified as an able-bodied seaman. Abbreviation: O.D., O.S., o.s.
  • payment holiday — a break taken from paying ( a debt etc) back
  • planned economy — an economic system in which the government controls and regulates production, distribution, prices, etc.
  • pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
  • pyrimidine base — any of a number of similar compounds having a basic structure that is derived from pyrimidine, including cytosine, thymine, and uracil, which are constituents of nucleic acids
  • radiogoniometry — the science of detecting the direction of radio waves
  • remembrance day — (in Canada) November 11, observed as a legal holiday in memory of those who died in World Wars I and II, similar to Veterans Day in the U.S.
  • romantic comedy — a light and humorous movie, play, etc., whose central plot is a happy love story.
  • secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
  • secondary xylem — xylem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • semicylindrical — of, relating to, or having the shape of a semicylinder
  • semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
  • stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
  • tocodynamometer — tokodynamometer.
  • tokodynamometer — a pressure gauge strapped to the mother's abdomen during labor to measure uterine contractions.
  • yellow mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
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