16-letter words containing d, e, c, l
- limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
- listening device — a device used to overhear, record, or monitor speech
- lithium chloride — a white, water-soluble, deliquescent, crystalline solid, LiCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of mineral water, especially lithia water, and as a flux in metallurgy.
- lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
- lucas van leyden — (Lucas Hugensz) 1494–1533, Dutch painter and engraver.
- luck of the draw — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
- machine readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
- machine-readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
- 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
- magellanic cloud — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
- malcontentedness — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
- maleic anhydride — a colorless crystalline, unsaturated compound, C 4 H 2 O 3 , that is soluble in acetone and hydrolyzes in water: used in the production of polyester resins, pesticides, and fumaric and tartaric acids.
- maleic hydrazide — a crystalline compound, C 4 N 2 H 4 O 2 , used as a plant growth inhibitor and weed-killer.
- 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.
- medical examiner — a physician or other person trained in medicine who is appointed by a city, county, or the like, to perform autopsies on the bodies of persons supposed to have died from unnatural causes and to investigate the cause and circumstances of such deaths.
- medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
- melodic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- melodramatically — In a melodramatic manner.
- mental defective — a person who suffers from a learning disability or from some form of mental illness
- mercuric sulfide — a crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous compound, HgS, occurring as a coarse, black powder (black mercuric sulfide) or as a fine, bright-scarlet powder (red mercuric sulfide) used chiefly as a pigment and as a source of the free metal.
- mercury chloride — mercuric chloride
- metasilicic acid — the hypothetical acid H2SiO3
- methacrylic acid — a colorless, liquid acid, C 4 H 6 O 2 , produced synthetically, whose methyl ester, methyl methacrylate, polymerizes to yield a clear plastic.
- methodologically — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- michaelmas daisy — an aster.
- microfilm reader — a machine that displays on a screen a magnified image of a microfilm
- microlepidoptera — a collector's name for the smaller moths: a term without taxonomic significance
- military academy — a private school organized somewhat along the lines of and following some of the procedures of military life.
- mittelland canal — a canal in Germany, linking the Rivers Rhine and Elbe. Length: 325 km (202 miles)
- modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
- modern icelandic — the Icelandic language since c1550.
- mönchen-gladbach — city in WC Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 266,000
- monkey-faced owl — barn owl.
- monocotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the monocotyledons.
- moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
- moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
- multi-discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
- multidisciplined — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
- munchen-gladbach — former name of Mönchengladbach.
- musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
- mustard-coloured — of a brownish-yellow colour
- mutual impedance — the ratio of the potential difference between either of two pairs of terminals to the current applied at the other pair of terminals when the circuit is open.
- nature-identical — manufactured to be identical to a natural substance
- nevado de colima — a volcano in SW Mexico, in Jalisco state. Height: 4339 m (14 235 ft)
- nevado de toluca — a volcano in central Mexico, in Mexico state near Toluca: crater partly filled by a lake. Height: 4577 m (15 017 ft)
- no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
- non-coincidental — happening by or resulting from coincidence; by chance: a coincidental meeting.