16-letter words containing d, i, s, y, l, a
- ladies auxiliary — an association whose members are usually the wives of members of an association with which it is affiliated.
- laserdisc player — a device that plays laserdiscs
- latter-day saint — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- living daylights — having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.
- marshalling yard — a place or depot where railway wagons are shunted and made up into trains and where engines, carriages, etc, are kept when not in use
- mayfield heights — a city in N Ohio, near Cleveland.
- medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
- michaelmas daisy — an aster.
- nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
- parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- pays de la loire — a region of W France, on the Bay of Biscay: generally low-lying, drained by the River Loire and its tributaries; agricultural
- physical address — (memory management) The address presented to a computer's main memory in a virtual memory system, in contrast to the virtual address which is the address generated by the CPU. A memory management unit translates virtual addresses into physical addresses.
- polycondensation — formation of a polymer by chemical condensation with the elimination of a small molecule, such as water.
- radial paralysis — paralysis of a forelimb as a result of loss of function of the radial nerve, usually following traumatic injury
- radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
- relative density — specific gravity.
- sapodilla family — the plant family Sapotaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical trees and shrubs having milky juice, simple leaves, small flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, and including the buckthorn (genus Bumelia), sapodilla, star apple, and trees that are the source of gutta-percha and balata.
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- social democracy — a political ideology advocating a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
- sodium cyclamate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, NaC 6 NH 1 2 SO 3 , that has been used as a sweetening agent: banned by the FDA in 1970.
- sodium methylate — a white, free-flowing, flammable powder, CH 3 ONa, decomposed by water to sodium hydroxide and methyl alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- special delivery — (in the U.S. Postal Service) delivery of mail outside the regularly scheduled hours, by a special messenger, upon the payment of an extra fee.
- strongyloidiasis — an intestinal disease caused by infection with the nematode worm Strongyloides stercoralis
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- videodisc player — an electronic device for playing videodiscs through a television set.
- whole nine yards — a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.