16-letter words containing d, e, l, a, y, s
- lucas van leyden — (Lucas Hugensz) 1494–1533, Dutch painter and engraver.
- mayfield heights — a city in N Ohio, near Cleveland.
- medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
- medullary sheath — Botany. a narrow zone made up of the innermost layer of woody tissue immediately surrounding the pith in plants.
- michaelmas daisy — an aster.
- nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
- one's salad days — If you refer to your salad days, you are referring to a period of your life when you were young and inexperienced.
- parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- pays de la loire — a region of W France, on the Bay of Biscay: generally low-lying, drained by the River Loire and its tributaries; agricultural
- 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)
- polycondensation — formation of a polymer by chemical condensation with the elimination of a small molecule, such as water.
- radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
- relative density — specific gravity.
- 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.
- secondary colour — a colour formed by mixing two primary colours
- secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
- secondary school — a high school or a school of corresponding grade, ranking between a primary school and a college or university.
- self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- sensory overload — being overwhelmed by sights, sounds, etc.
- social democracy — a political ideology advocating a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
- sodium cyclamate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, NaC 6 NH 1 2 SO 3 , that has been used as a sweetening agent: banned by the FDA in 1970.
- sodium methylate — a white, free-flowing, flammable powder, CH 3 ONa, decomposed by water to sodium hydroxide and methyl alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- special delivery — (in the U.S. Postal Service) delivery of mail outside the regularly scheduled hours, by a special messenger, upon the payment of an extra fee.
- strawberry blond — reddish blond.
- take holy orders — to become ordained
- the-card-players — a painting (1892) by Paul Cézanne.
- transcendentally — transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
- videodisc player — an electronic device for playing videodiscs through a television set.
- whole nine yards — a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.