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16-letter words containing d, e, f, a, t

  • parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
  • pass-band filter — band-pass filter
  • perforated ulcer — an ulcer that bursts through the stomach wall and leaks food and gastric juices into the abdominal cavity
  • refractive index — index of refraction.
  • reidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
  • rule of the road — any of the regulations concerning the safe handling of vessels under way with respect to one another, imposed by a government on ships in its own waters or upon its own ships on the high seas.
  • safe deposit box — A safe deposit box is a small box, usually kept in a special room in a bank, in which you can store valuable objects.
  • safe-deposit box — a lockable metal box or drawer, especially in a bank vault, used for safely storing valuable papers, jewelry, etc.
  • safety standards — standards prescribed (by a regulatory body, etc) that must be adhered to to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
  • self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • self-advancement — an act of moving forward.
  • self-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
  • self-degradation — the act of degrading.
  • self-denigrating — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • 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-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-designation — a name taken for oneself or one's own people
  • self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
  • self-indignation — strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
  • self-liquidating — capable of being sold and converted into cash within a short period of time or before the date on which the supplier must be paid.
  • self-opinionated — conceited; having an inordinately high regard for oneself, one's own opinions, views, etc.
  • self-vindicating — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
  • self-vindication — the act of vindicating.
  • sodium bisulfate — a colorless crystalline compound, NaHSO 4 , soluble in water: used in dyeing, in the manufacture of cement, paper, soap, and an acid-type cleaner.
  • soft in the head — stupid or foolish
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • stalked puffball — a puffball-like mushroom of the genus Tulestoma, maturing in early winter.
  • standoff missile — a missile capable of striking a distant target after launch by an aircraft outside the range of missile defences
  • streets ahead of — superior to, more advanced than, etc
  • studentification — the renting of particular accommodation exclusively to students
  • superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
  • sutherland falls — a waterfall in New Zealand, on SW South Island. 1904 feet (580 meters) high.
  • take for granted — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
  • take the lid off — to make startling or spectacular revelations about
  • tequendama falls — a waterfall in central Colombia, on the Bogota River, SW of Bogota. 515 feet (157 meters) high.
  • tierra del fuego — a group of islands at the S tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: jointly owned by Argentina and Chile; boundary disputed. 27,476 sq. mi. (71,165 sq. km).
  • transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
  • transfer student — a student who moves from one institution or course to another at the same level (e.g. undergraduate)
  • tread under foot — to oppress
  • treaty of verdun — an agreement reached in 843 ad by three grandsons of Charlemagne, dividing his empire into an E kingdom (later Germany), a W kingdom (later France), and a middle kingdom (containing what became the Low Countries, Lorraine, Burgundy, and N Italy)
  • 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.
  • undifferentiable — capable of being differentiated.
  • undifferentiated — to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
  • way of the world — a comedy of manners (1700) by William Congreve.
  • wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
  • wire-transferred — to transmit (money or credit) by wire transfer.
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