16-letter words containing d, i, a, l, g, c
- financial doping — the situation in which a sports franchise borrows heavily in order to contract and pay high-performing players, jeopardizing their long-term financial future
- flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
- gabriel, richard — Richard Gabriel
- general medicine — non-surgical branch of medicine
- gibberellic acid — a gibberellin C 18 H 21 O 4 COOH, produced as a metabolite by the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi, used as a stimulator of plant growth.
- glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
- gold certificate — a former U.S. paper currency issued by the federal government for circulation from 1865 to 1933, equal to and redeemable for gold to a stated value.
- great-grandchild — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
- grid declination — the angular difference between true north and grid north on a map
- hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
- handling charges — a fee paid to cover the packaging, transport, etc, of a commodity
- hydraulic mining — placer mining using a pressurized stream of water.
- interlaced image — progressive coding
- legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
- like cat and dog — quarrelling savagely
- liturgical drama — medieval drama, based on incidents in the Bible and performed in churches on holy days, usually in Latin and often chanted.
- 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
- magellanic cloud — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
- 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.
- methodologically — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- mongolian idiocy — (no longer in technical use) Down syndrome.
- moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
- oligosaccharides — Plural form of oligosaccharide.
- orographic cloud — any cloud whose existence and form are largely controlled by the disturbed flow of air over and around mountains, as the banner cloud and crest cloud.
- paradigmatically — of or relating to a paradigm.
- pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
- prolonged-action — sustained-release.
- puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
- radiographically — the production of radiographs.
- saddle stitching — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
- school-age child — a child who is old enough to go to school
- self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-vindicating — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- slang dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering the words, phrases, and idioms that reflect the least formal speech of a language. These terms are often metaphorical and playful, and are likely to be evanescent as the spoken language changes from one generation to another. Much slang belongs to specific groups, as the jargon of a particular class, profession, or age group. Some is vulgar. Some slang terms have staying power as slang, but others make a transition into common informal speech, and then into the standard language. An online slang dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Slang Dictionary, provides immediate information about the meaning and history of a queried term and its appropriateness or lack of appropriateness in a range of social and professional circumstances.
- special handling — (in the U.S. Postal Service) the handling of third- and fourth-class mail as first-class upon the payment of a fee.
- special pleading — Law. pleading that alleges special or new matter in avoidance of the allegations made by the opposite side.
- walking distance — distance that can easily be walked
- wild goose chase — a wild or absurd search for something nonexistent or unobtainable: a wild-goose chase looking for a building long demolished.
- wild-goose chase — a wild or absurd search for something nonexistent or unobtainable: a wild-goose chase looking for a building long demolished.