16-letter words containing d, e, a, r, n, l
- on the breadline — impoverished; living at subsistence level
- once and for all — former; having at one time been: the once and future king.
- orange marmalade — preserve made from oranges
- ordinary jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
- oriental emerald — a green variety of corundum used as a gemstone
- painted trillium — a North American trillium, Trillium undulatum, having white flowers streaked with pink or purple.
- parallelepipedon — a prism with six faces, all parallelograms.
- partial ordering — a relation defined on a set, having the properties that each element is in relation to itself, the relation is transitive, and if two elements are in relation to each other, the two elements are equal.
- parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- pass-band filter — band-pass filter
- pencil and paper — An archaic information storage and transmission device that works by depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp. More recent developments in paper-based technology include improved "write-once" update devices which use tiny rolling heads similar to mouse balls to deposit coloured pigment. All these devices require an operator skilled at so-called "handwriting" technique. These technologies are ubiquitous outside hackerdom, but nearly forgotten inside it. Most hackers had terrible handwriting to begin with, and years of keyboarding tend to have encouraged it to degrade further. Perhaps for this reason, hackers deprecate pencil-and-paper technology and often resist using it in any but the most trivial contexts.
- perpendicularity — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- personal details — details about a person such as their name and address
- play one's cards — to carry out one's plans; take action (esp in the phrase play one's cards right)
- polar coordinate — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
- polyhedral angle — a configuration consisting of the lateral faces of a polyhedron around one of its vertices. The portion of a pyramid including one of its points is such a configuration.
- predispositional — the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
- prolonged-action — sustained-release.
- promotional code — A promotional code is a code offered by retailers to customers who can use it to receive a discounted price when buying products online.
- puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
- purple sandpiper — a sandpiper, Calidris maritima, of arctic regions of the New and Old World, having in winter a slate-gray back with purplish reflections.
- quadricentennial — of, relating to, or marking the completion of a period of four hundred years.
- quadrimillennial — Occurring every four thousand years.
- radiation levels — the levels of the emission or transfer of radiant energy or the levels of the particles emitted in the transfer of radiant energy, esp the particles and gamma rays emitted in nuclear decay
- radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
- radio-controlled — A radio-controlled device works by receiving radio signals which operate it.
- ranelagh gardens — a public garden in Chelsea opened in 1742: a centre for members of fashionable society to meet and promenade. The gardens were closed in 1804
- rattle around in — to live or work in (a house, office, etc.) that is too big for one's needs
- rattlesnake weed — a hawkweed, Hieracium venosum, of eastern North America, whose leaves and root are thought to possess medicinal properties.
- read only memory — ROM.
- read-only memory — ROM.
- reading material — any matter that can be read; written or printed text
- reasonable doubt — law: grounds for believing sb is innocent
- reconceptualized — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- red-flannel hash — hash made of ground corned beef, potatoes, and beets
- redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
- redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
- reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
- relational model — relational data model
- relative density — specific gravity.
- released version — release
- remedial reading — instruction in reading aimed at increasing speed and comprehension by correcting poor reading habits.
- residential care — the provision by a welfare agency of a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as children in care or mentally handicapped adults
- residential home — a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as esp the elderly, and also children in care or mentally handicapped adults
- residual current — an electric current that continues to flow in a device, etc when there is no voltage supply, due to electrons emitted by heat, etc
- rhode island red — one of an American breed of chickens having dark reddish-brown feathers and producing brown eggs.
- 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.
- ribonucleic acid — RNA.