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16-letter words containing d, e, n, t, i

  • dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • dumont d'urville — Jules Sébastien César [zhyl sey-bas-tyan sey-zar] /ʒül seɪ basˈtyɛ̃ seɪˈzar/ (Show IPA), 1790–1842, French naval officer: explored South Pacific and Antarctic.
  • dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
  • dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
  • dyed-in-the-wool — through and through; complete: a dyed-in-the-wool reformer.
  • earnings-related — An earnings-related payment or benefit provides higher or lower payments according to the amount a person was earning while working.
  • eastern kingbird — any of several American tyrant flycatchers of the genus Tyrannus, especially T. tyrannus (eastern kingbird) of North America, known for their pugnacious disposition toward predators.
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • editorialization — The act of editorializing, or something editorialized.
  • educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
  • electric welding — the process of welding together, through the use of the heat that is produced by an electric current, pieces of metal
  • embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
  • endarterectomies — Plural form of endarterectomy.
  • ending inventory — An ending inventory is all of the goods, services, or materials that a business has available for use or sale at the end of an accounting period.
  • endocranial cast — a cast made of the inside of a cranial cavity to show the size and shape of the brain: used esp in anthropology
  • endocrinologists — Plural form of endocrinologist.
  • endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
  • entente cordiale — a friendly understanding between political powers: less formal than an alliance
  • equidistribution — An equal distribution.
  • ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
  • ex-dividend date — The ex-dividend date is the date after the declaration of a dividend on which the buyer of a stock is not entitled to receive the next dividend payment.
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • extension ladder — a ladder that can be made longer by pulling out an extra section
  • external auditor — sb brought in to check financial records
  • extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
  • fade-in fade-out — an optical effect in which a shot appears gradually out of darkness and then gradually disappears
  • faintheartedness — The quality or state of being fainthearted.
  • federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
  • feel constrained — If you feel constrained to do something, you feel that you must do it, even though you would prefer not to.
  • feira de santana — a city in BahÍa state, E Brazil.
  • feline distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • finance director — financial manager
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • flight attendant — an airline employee who serves meals, attends to passengers' comfort, etc., during a flight.
  • floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
  • food intolerance — an intolerance of a specific type of food, causing an adverse reaction
  • foot in the door — If you say that something helps someone to get their foot in the door or their toe in the door, you mean that it gives them an opportunity to start doing something new, usually in an area that is difficult to succeed in.
  • for the duration — If you say that something will happen for the duration, you mean that it will happen for as long as a particular situation continues.
  • forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
  • forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
  • fore and aft rig — a sail set in a line from one end the other of a vessel rather than in a square
  • fore-and-aft rig — a rig in which the principal sails are fore-and-aft.
  • forked lightning — Forked lightning is lightning that divides into two or more parts near the ground.
  • forwarding agent — freight forwarder.
  • foundation stone — any of the stones composing the foundation of a building.
  • fourth dimension — Physics, Mathematics. a dimension in addition to length, width, and depth, used so as to be able to employ geometrical language in discussing phenomena that depend on four variables: Time is considered a fourth dimension for locating points in space-time.
  • francis townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
  • french directory — the body of five directors in power in France from 1795 until their overthrow by Napoleon in 1799
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