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16-letter words containing d, i, e

  • assigned counsel — any private lawyer designated by a city or county court to represent indigent defendants in criminal cases at public expense.
  • assigned numbers — (standard)   The RFC STD 2 documenting the currently assigned values from several series of numbers used in network protocol implementations. This RFC is updated periodically and, in any case, current information can be obtained from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). If you are developing a protocol or application that will require the use of a link, socket, port, protocol, etc., you should contact the IANA to receive a number assignment.
  • assistant editor — a person who assists an editor in their work
  • assisted passage — a scheme whereby a government encourages people to emigrate or return home by agreeing to pay for their ticket
  • assisted suicide — suicide committed with the assistance of a physician by a person terminally ill or in unmanageable pain
  • associate degree — An associate degree is a college degree that is awarded to a student who has completed a two-year course of study.
  • associated state — a nation with limited sovereignty, especially a former colony that now assumes responsibility for domestic affairs but continues to depend on the colonial ruler for defense and foreign policy.
  • at liberty to do — If someone is at liberty to do something, they have been given permission to do it.
  • athanasian creed — a profession of faith widely used in the Western Church which, although formerly attributed to Athanasius, probably originated in Gaul between 381 and 428 ad
  • atmospheric tide — a movement of atmospheric masses caused by the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon and by daily solar heating.
  • attitude of mind — Your attitude of mind is your general way of thinking and feeling.
  • attitude problem — a frame of mind perceived by others to be hostile or uncooperative
  • atwood's machine — a device consisting of two unequal masses connected by a string passed over a pulley, used to illustrate the laws of motion.
  • audience chamber — a room where a monarch or head of state conducts formal interviews
  • audience figures — the number of people regularly watching a television programme or listening to a radio programme
  • audio conference — a meeting that is conducted by the use of audio telecommunications
  • auditory vesicle — the pouch that is formed by the invagination of an ectodermal placode and that develops into the internal ear.
  • automatic redial — a telephone service feature whereby the last number dialed is automatically called again, either after a specified time or when activated by the user.
  • avian diphtheria — a virus disease of chickens and other birds characterized by warty excrescences on the comb and wattles, and often by diphtherialike changes in the mucous membranes of the head.
  • azodicarbonamide — (chemistry) An organic chemical, a yellow to orange red, odorless, crystalline powder, used in food industry as a food additive, a flour bleaching agent and improving agent and in foaming plastics.
  • babe-in-a-cradle — a tall orchid, Epiblema grandiflorum, of SW Australia with lilac to mauve flowers
  • back-seat driver — If you refer to a passenger in a car as a back-seat driver, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice.
  • background noise — any type of noise that is not the sound that you are specifically listening to or monitoring
  • badminton racket — the type of racket used in games of badminton
  • baggage handling — the work of dealing with and sorting passengers' baggage at an airport
  • bahasa indonesia — the official language of Indonesia: developed from the form of Malay formerly widely used as a trade language in SE Asia
  • balearic islands — a group of islands in the W Mediterranean, consisting of Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera, Cabrera, and 11 islets: a province of Spain. Capital: Palma, on Majorca. Pop: 1 071 500 (2003 est). Area: 5012 sq km (1935 sq miles)
  • band-pass filter — a filter that transmits only those currents having a frequency lying within specified limits
  • barbed tributary — a tributary that joins its mainstream in an upstream direction rather than in the more common downstream direction.
  • barium hydroxide — a white poisonous crystalline solid, used in the manufacture of organic compounds and in the preparation of beet sugar. Formula: Ba(OH)2
  • baron tweedsmuir — the title of Scottish novelist John Buchan
  • barrier of ideas — the representations of objects which certain accounts of perception interpose between the objects themselves and our awareness of them, so that, as critics argue, we can never know whether there is in reality anything which resembles our perceptions
  • bartholomeu dias — Bartholomeu [bahr-too-loo-me-oo] /ˌbɑr tʊ lʊˈmɛ ʊ/ (Show IPA), c1450–1500, Portuguese navigator: discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope.
  • basic dichromate — an orange-red, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, Bi 2 O 3 ⋅2CrO 3 , used chiefly as a pigment in paints.
  • bastard culverin — a 16th-century cannon, smaller than a culverin, firing a shot of between 5 and 8 pounds (11 and 17.6 kg).
  • bearing pedestal — an independent support for a bearing, usually incorporating a bearing housing
  • bearish tendency — a tendency for share prices to fall
  • bed-sitting room — a combined bedroom and sitting room serving as a one-room apartment
  • behind the curve — behind the times; behind schedule
  • behind the times — You can use the times to refer to the present time and to modern fashions, tastes, and developments. For example, if you say that someone keeps up with the times, you mean they are fashionable or aware of modern developments. If you say they are behind the times, you mean they are unfashionable or not aware of them.
  • belgian sheepdog — any of a Belgian breed of large herding dog with a black coat, sometimes used as a guide dog
  • bells of ireland — an annual garden plant, Moluccella laevis, whose flowers have a green cup-shaped calyx: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
  • belted-bias tire — a motor-vehicle tire of the same construction as a bias-ply tire but with an added belt of steel or a strong synthetic material under the tread.
  • benzotrichloride — a colorless or yellowish liquid, C 7 H 5 Cl 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes.
  • benzotrifluoride — a colorless, flammable liquid, C 7 H 5 F 3 , used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals, and as a solvent.
  • benzoyl peroxide — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, explosive solid, C 7 H 5 O 4 , used chiefly as a bleaching agent for flour, fats, oils, and waxes, and as a catalyst in polymerization reactions.
  • berkeley edif200 — translator-building toolkit Wendell C. Baker and Prof A. Richard Newton of the Electronics Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. Version 7.6. Restriction: no-profit without permission.
  • bermuda triangle — an area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Florida where ships and aeroplanes are alleged to have disappeared mysteriously
  • beside the point — If you say that something is beside the point, you mean that it is not relevant to the subject that you are discussing.
  • bias-belted tire — belted-bias tire.
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