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16-letter words containing d, e, c, l, a, s

  • himachal pradesh — a state in N India. 21,495 sq. mi. (55,673 sq. km). Capital: Shimla.
  • hold one's peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
  • hydrophyllaceous — belonging to the Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family of plants.
  • immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
  • indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
  • intellectualised — Simple past tense and past participle of intellectualise.
  • knuckle sandwich — a punch in the mouth with a clenched fist.
  • laserdisc player — a device that plays laserdiscs
  • lesser celandine — a Eurasian plant, Ranunculus ficaria, of the buttercup family, having heart-shaped leaves and glossy yellow flowers, naturalized in North America.
  • lucas van leyden — (Lucas Hugensz) 1494–1533, Dutch painter and engraver.
  • malcontentedness — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
  • malicious damage — Malicious damage is damage caused on purpose to the property of another person.
  • masculine ending — a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
  • medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
  • metasilicic acid — the hypothetical acid H2SiO3
  • michaelmas daisy — an aster.
  • musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
  • mustard-coloured — of a brownish-yellow colour
  • nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
  • oligosaccharides — Plural form of oligosaccharide.
  • on a world scale — in a way that involves the whole world
  • panel discussion — a formal discussion before an audience for which the topic, speakers, etc., have been selected in advance.
  • pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
  • persulfuric acid — Also called Caro's acid, permonosulfuric acid, peroxymonosulfuric acid, peroxysulfuric acid. a white, crystalline solid, H 2 SO 5 , used as an oxidizing agent for certain organic compounds.
  • 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)
  • pleased as punch — the chief male character in a Punch-and-Judy show.
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • poisoned chalice — If you refer to a job or an opportunity as a poisoned chalice, you mean that it seems to be very attractive but you believe it will lead to failure.
  • polycondensation — formation of a polymer by chemical condensation with the elimination of a small molecule, such as water.
  • price leadership — the setting of the price of a product or service by a dominant firm at a level that competitors can match, in order to avoid a price war
  • pseudo-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • pseudo-realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
  • pseudocopulation — pollination of plants, esp orchids, by male insects while attempting to mate with flowers that resemble the female insect
  • pseudohistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
  • 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
  • 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
  • restricted class — a class of yachts that, although differing somewhat in design and rigging, are deemed able to race together because of conformity to certain standards.
  • saddle stitching — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • safeguard clause — a clause in a contract, etc, that ensures the protection of something against problems, etc
  • scheduled castes — (in India) the official name given to the lower castes that are now protected by the government and offered special concessions.
  • school-age child — a child who is old enough to go to school
  • schouten islands — a group of islands belonging to Papua New Guinea, in the Pacific Oceans, off the N coast of New Guinea.
  • sculpture garden — a garden that showcases sculptures in landscaped surroundings
  • sebaceous glands — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
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