16-letter words containing d, i, s, t, l
- accordion pleats — tiny knife pleats
- acoustical cloud — one of a number of acoustic panels installed near the ceiling of a concert hall to reflect sound for improving the acoustic quality of music.
- activated sludge — a mass of aerated precipitated sewage added to untreated sewage to bring about purification by hastening decomposition by microorganisms
- adhesive plaster — adhesive tape, especially in wide sheets.
- adjective clause — a relative clause that modifies a noun or pronoun, as the clause that I told you about in This is the book that I told you about and who saw us in It was she who saw us.
- adjustable-pitch — (of a marine or aircraft propeller) having blades whose pitch can be changed while the propeller is stationary, chiefly to suit various conditions of navigation or flight.
- administrational — the management of any office, business, or organization; direction.
- administratively — pertaining to administration; executive: administrative ability.
- advice columnist — An advice columnist is a person who writes a column in a newspaper or magazine in which they reply to readers who have written to them for advice on their personal problems.
- aeolian deposits — sediments, such as loess, made up of windblown grains of sand or dust
- against all odds — If something happens against all odds, it happens or succeeds although it seemed impossible or very unlikely.
- air-raid shelter — a structure, often located underground, that is designed to protect people during an air raid
- aleutian islands — a chain of over 150 volcanic islands, extending southwestwards from the Alaska Peninsula between the N Pacific and the Bering Sea
- an end in itself — If you consider something to be an end in itself, you do it because it seems desirable and not because it is likely to lead to something else.
- anabolic steroid — Anabolic steroids are drugs which people, especially athletes, take to make their muscles bigger and to give them more strength.
- anti-federalists — U.S. History. a member or supporter of the Antifederal party.
- antimony sulfide — antimony pentasulfide.
- antiphospholipid — (medicine) Counteracting phospholipids; applied to Hughes syndrome.
- appraisal method — a method used for the appraisal of an employee
- ascidian tadpole — the free-swimming larva of an ascidian, having a tadpole-like tail containing the notochord and nerve cord
- auditory vesicle — the pouch that is formed by the invagination of an ectodermal placode and that develops into the internal ear.
- band-pass filter — a filter that transmits only those currents having a frequency lying within specified limits
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- bias-belted tire — belted-bias tire.
- black nightshade — a poisonous solanaceous plant, Solanum nigrum, a common weed in cultivated land, having small white flowers with backward-curved petals and black berry-like fruits
- bleeder resistor — a resistor connected across the output terminals of a power supply in order to improve voltage regulation and to discharge filter capacitors
- blood substitute — a substance such as plasma, albumin, or dextran, used to replace lost blood or increase the blood volume
- bodily functions — physical processes such as urination and defecation
- border leicester — a breed of sheep originally developed in the border country between Scotland and England by crossing English Leicesters with Cheviots: large numbers in Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand. It has a long white fleece with no wool on the head
- bright-blindness — blindness occurring in sheep grazing pastures heavily infested with bracken
- brittle diabetes — uncontrolled insulin disorder
- building society — In Britain, a building society is a business which will lend you money when you want to buy a house. You can also invest money in a building society, where it will earn interest. Compare savings and loan association.
- cardinal virtues — the most important moral qualities, traditionally justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude
- cascade particle — the least massive member of the xi particle family.
- child psychiatry — the branch of psychiatry specializing in the treatment of children.
- christmas island — an island in the Indian Ocean, south of Java: administered by Singapore (1900–58), now by Australia; phosphate mining. Pop: 1496 (2013 est). Area: 135 sq km (52 sq miles)
- clearsightedness — The property of being clearsighted.
- clitoridectomies — Plural form of clitoridectomy.
- cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
- cloistered vault — a vault having the form of a number of intersecting coves.
- closed community — a plant community that does not allow for further colonization, all the available niches being occupied
- closed-captioned — (of a video recording) having subtitles which appear on screen only if the cassette is played through a special decoder
- conditional sale — a sale in which the title of a property remains with the seller until some condition is met, as the payment of the full purchase price.
- confidentialness — The state or quality of being confidential.
- consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
- constant folding — (compiler) A compiler optimisation technique where constant subexpressions are evaluated at compile time. This is usually only applied to built-in numerical and boolean operators whereas partial evaluation is more general in that expressions involving user-defined functions may also be evaluated at compile time.
- conventionalised — to make conventional.
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