16-letter words containing d, e, f, a, c
- manufactured gas — a gaseous fuel created from coal, oil, etc., as differentiated from natural gas.
- matter of record — a fact or statement that appears on the record of a court and that can be proved or established by producing such record.
- mental defective — a person who suffers from a learning disability or from some form of mental illness
- mexican standoff — a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can win.
- microfilm reader — a machine that displays on a screen a magnified image of a microfilm
- modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
- monkey-faced owl — barn owl.
- no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
- non-confidential — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
- non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- off-road vehicle — An off-road vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
- once and for all — former; having at one time been: the once and future king.
- ordnance factory — a factory that makes military weapons and ammunition
- perforated ulcer — an ulcer that bursts through the stomach wall and leaks food and gastric juices into the abdominal cavity
- performance bond — contract bond.
- 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.
- phase difference — the difference between two sinusoidally varying quantities that have the same frequency, measured either as an angle or a time
- puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
- refractive index — index of refraction.
- reidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
- safeguard clause — a clause in a contract, etc, that ensures the protection of something against problems, etc
- self-advancement — an act of moving forward.
- self-deliverance — suicide.
- self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-vindicating — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- self-vindication — the act of vindicating.
- spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
- studentification — the renting of particular accommodation exclusively to students
- sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
- superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
- twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
- unfranked income — any income from an investment that does not qualify as franked investment income
- uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
- vulcanized fiber — a leatherlike substance made by compression of layers of paper or cloth that have been treated with acids or zinc chloride, used chiefly for electric insulation.