20-letter words containing d, i, l, u, t, a
- frequency modulation — FM.
- fulminating compound — a fulminate.
- fundamental particle — elementary particle.
- gravitational radius — Schwarzschild radius.
- guided visualization — a relaxation technique in which words, sounds, etc., are used to evoke positive mental images, feelings, and thoughts.
- guillaume de machaut — Guillaume de [French gee-yohm duh] /French giˈyoʊm də/ (Show IPA), Guillaume de Machaut.
- hard gelatin capsule — A hard gelatin capsule is a type of capsule that is usually used to contain medicine in the form of dry powder or very small pellets.
- helmeted guinea fowl — the common guinea fowl in its wild state.
- hospitality industry — the hotel and accommodation industry
- hydraulic fracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydrodesulfurization — desulfurization by catalytic agents of the sulfur-rich hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum or the like during cracking or hydrocracking.
- in the public domain — able to be discussed and examined freely by the general public
- indistinguishability — The state of being indistinguishable.
- industrial democracy — control of an organization by the people who work for it, esp by workers holding positions on its board of directors
- industrial espionage — the stealing of technological or commercial research data, blueprints, plans, etc., as by a person in the hire of a competing company.
- industrial insurance — industrial life insurance.
- industrial relations — (used with a plural verb) the dealings or relations of an industrial concern with its employees, with labor in general, with the public, etc.
- industrial sociology — the sociological study of social relationships and social structures in business settings.
- information builders — Distributors of LEVEL5 OBJECT. Telephone +1 800 969 INFO.
- inland revenue stamp — a certificate issued by the Inland Revenue to acknowledge payment of tax
- intestinal fortitude — courage; resoluteness; endurance; guts: to have intestinal fortitude.
- justifiable homicide — murder committed under extenuating circumstances
- lieutenant commander — a commissioned officer ranking next below a commander and next above a lieutenant.
- like death warmed up — very ill
- longitude by account — the longitude of the position of a vessel as estimated by dead reckoning.
- longitudinal framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
- longitudinal section — the representation of an object as it would appear if cut by the vertical plane passing through the longest axis of the object.
- macular degeneration — degeneration of the central portion of the retina, resulting in a loss of sharp vision.
- mail-order catalogue — a catalogue of goods you can buy from a particular company by mail order
- marquis de lafayette — Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier [ma-ree zhaw-zef pawl eev rawk zheel-ber dy maw-tyey] /maˈri ʒɔˈzɛf pɔl iv rɔk ʒilˈbɛr dü mɔˈtyeɪ/ (Show IPA), Marquis de. Also, La Fayette. 1757–1834, French soldier, statesman, and liberal leader, who served in the American Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to General Washington, and took a leading part in the French revolutions of 1789 and 1830.
- medical underwriting — Medical underwriting is the use of medical or health status information in the evaluation of an applicant for life or health insurance.
- minimum lending rate — the official interest rate charged by the Bank of England and below which it will refrain from lending money.
- monosodium glutamate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 5 H 8 NNaO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used to intensify the flavor of foods.
- multicast addressing — Ethernet addressing scheme used to send packets to devices of a certain type or for broadcasting to all nodes. The least significant bit of the most significant byte of a multi-cast address is one.
- multimedia extension — Matrix Math eXtensions
- multistep hydroplane — a motorship having a flat bottom built as a series of planes inclined forward, the ship planing on each from stem to stern as its speed increases.
- net national product — the gross national product less allowance for depreciation of capital goods. Abbreviation: NNP.
- nonaccidental injury — damage, such as a bruise, burn, or fracture, deliberately inflicted on a child or an old person
- noninstitutionalized — Not institutionalized.
- nostalgie de la boue — a desire for or attraction to crudity, vulgarity, depravity, etc.
- occupational disease — Also called industrial disease. a disease caused by the conditions or hazards of a particular occupation.
- parallel of altitude — almucantar.
- parallel of latitude — parallel (def 9).
- pedal steel (guitar) — a steel guitar mounted on legs and equipped with pedals that serve as an additional means of changing pitch
- pentobarbital sodium — a barbiturate drug used in medicine as a sedative and hypnotic. Formula: C11H17N2O3Na
- pentose nucleic acid — a nucleic acid containing a pentose.
- perpendicular gothic — the style of Gothic architecture in England during the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by tracery having vertical lines, a four-centred arch, and fan vaulting
- physical double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- public administrator — an official of a city, county, or state government.
- qualitative identity — the relation that holds between two relata that have properties in common. This term is used to distinguish many uses of the words identical or same in ordinary language from strict identity or numerical identity