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16-letter words containing d, i, l

  • friendly society — law: mutual group providing benefits
  • fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
  • fundamental unit — one of a set of unrelated units that form the basis of a system of units. For example, the metre, kilogram, and second are fundamental units of the SI system
  • fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
  • funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
  • gabriel, richard — Richard Gabriel
  • gallium arsenide — a crystalline and highly toxic semiconductor, GaAs, used in light-emitting diodes, lasers, and electronic devices.
  • garbage disposal — A garbage disposal or a garbage disposal unit is a small machine in the kitchen sink that breaks down waste matter so that it does not block the sink.
  • garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
  • gelatin dynamite — a high explosive consisting of a gelatinized mass of nitroglycerin with cellulose nitrate added.
  • gender selection — choosing the sex of a baby
  • gender-profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
  • general delivery — a postal service that delivers mail to a specific post office where it is held for pickup by the addressee.
  • general medicine — non-surgical branch of medicine
  • gentleman friend — a man with whom a woman is romantically involved; suitor.
  • giant granadilla — the edible fruit of any of several species of passionflower, especially Passiflora edulis (purple granadilla) or P. quadrangularis (giant granadilla)
  • 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.
  • gilding the lily — If you say that someone is gilding the lily, you mean that they are spoiling something that is already beautiful or perfect by trying to improve it or by praising it too highly.
  • gilt-edged stock — government stock on which interest payments will certainly be met and that will certainly be repaid at par on the due date
  • gingerbread palm — doom palm.
  • gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
  • gird one's loins — Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
  • glendale heights — a city in NE Illinois.
  • 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.
  • golden delicious — a bright yellow type of Delicious apple.
  • golden rain tree — an ornamental tree, Koelreuteria paniculata, of the soapberry family, native to China and adjacent areas, having pinnate leaves, large clusters of fragrant yellow flowers, and inflated pods containing black seeds used as beads.
  • golden retriever — one of an English breed of retrievers having a thick, flat or wavy, golden coat.
  • goldsmith beetle — a brilliant golden scarabaeid beetle, Cetonia aurata, of Europe.
  • goodwill mission — a group of people sent to a foreign country to express goodwill
  • governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
  • governors island — an island in New York Bay at the S end of the East River: U.S. military post. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
  • gravity railroad — a railroad depending partly on the force of gravity for motive power.
  • great-grandchild — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
  • grid declination — the angular difference between true north and grid north on a map
  • gulf of liaodong — the N part of the Gulf of Chihli, west of the Liaodong Peninsula
  • gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
  • haemodynamically — from a hemodynamic point of view
  • hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
  • half life period — Physics. the time required for one half the atoms of a given amount of a radioactive substance to disintegrate.
  • half-blind joint — a corner dovetail joint visible on one face only.
  • handling charges — a fee paid to cover the packaging, transport, etc, of a commodity
  • have a field day — If someone is having a field day, they are very busy doing something that they enjoy, even though it may be hurtful for other people.
  • heads-up display — an electronic display of data from instruments or other sources projected at eye level so that a driver or pilot sees it without looking away from the road or course. Abbreviation: HUD.
  • health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
  • heavy with child — pregnant
  • hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
  • heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
  • hexahydroaniline — cyclohexylamine.
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