20-letter words containing d, i, t

intravenous drug use — the injection of drugs intravenously
intruder in the dust — a novel (1948) by William Faulkner.
inventory adjustment — Inventory adjustments are increases or decreases made in inventory to account for theft, loss, breakages, and errors in the amount or number of items received.
isosorbide dinitrate — a coronary vasodilator, C 6 H 8 N 2 O 8 , used in the prophylaxis and treatment of angina.
java development kit — (language, compiler) (JDK) A free Sun Microsystems product which provides the environment required for programming in Java. The JDK is available for a variety of platforms, but most notably Sun Solaris and Microsoft Windows.
join-the-dots puzzle — a puzzle requiring you to connect a series of dots by drawing lines between them. If the dots are correctly connected, the result is a picture
justifiable homicide — murder committed under extenuating circumstances
kill the fatted calf — the young of the domestic cow or other bovine animal.
la canada-flintridge — a town in SW California.
laboratory diagnosis — scientific analysis of a disease
lafayette escadrille — a contingent of American aviators who in 1916 served as volunteers (Escadrille Américaine) in the French air force and in 1918 became the 103rd Pursuit Squadron of the U.S. Army.
law of contradiction — the law that a proposition cannot be both true and false or that a thing cannot both have and not have a given property.
lead with one's chin — to act so imprudently as to invite disaster
lieutenant commander — a commissioned officer ranking next below a commander and next above a lieutenant.
light-emitting diode — LED.
like a dose of salts — very quickly indeed
like death warmed up — very ill
linage advertisement — advertisements which are costed and paid for according to the number of lines in them
linearly ordered set — a set in which a relation, as “less than or equal to,” holds for all pairs of elements of the set.
liquidity preference — (in Keynesian economics) the degree of individual preference for cash over less liquid assets.
little pee dee river — a river in S North Carolina and N South Carolina, flowing S and SE to the Pee Dee River. 90 miles (145 km) long.
little ringed plover — a small grey and brown coloured plover which breeds in Europe and Asia and migrates to Africa for winter
live and breathe sth — be passionately interested in sth
long island iced tea — a potent cocktail consisting of equal parts of, typically, five different distilled alcoholic liquors, usually vodka, gin, rum, tequila, and triple sec, with a small amount of mixer, usually cola
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.
madwoman of chaillot — a satirical comedy (1945) by Jean Giraudoux.
magnetic card reader — a device that scans and interprets information from a card with a magnetic stripe
magnetic declination — variation (def 8).
magneto-optical disk — (hardware, storage) (MO) A plastic or glass disk coated with a compound (often TbFeCo) with special optical, magnetic and thermal properties. The disk is read by bouncing a low-intensity laser off the disk. Originally the laser was infrared, but frequencies up to blue may be possible giving higher storage density. The polarisation of the reflected light depends on the polarity of the stored magnetic field. To write, a higher intensity laser heats the coating up to its Curie point, allowing its magnetisation to be altered in a way that is retained when it has cooled. Although optical, they appear as hard drives to the operating system and do not require a special filesystem (they can be formatted as FAT, HPFS, NTFS, etc.). The initial 5.25" MO drives, introduced at the end of the 1980s, were the size of a full-height 5.25" hard drive (like in IBM PC XT) and the disks looked like a CD-ROM enclosed in an old-style cartridge In 2006, a 3.5" drive has the size of 1.44 megabyte diskette drive with disks about the size of a regular 1.44MB floppy disc but twice the thickness.
magnetohydrodynamics — the branch of physics that deals with the motion of electrically conductive fluids, especially plasmas, in magnetic fields. Abbreviation: MHD.
mail-order catalogue — a catalogue of goods you can buy from a particular company by mail order
maintenance and cure — the right of an injured sailor to support and medical treatment.
make head (n)or tail — If you say that you cannot make head nor tail of something or you cannot make head or tail of it, you are emphasizing that you cannot understand it at all.
make head or tail of — to attempt to understand (a problem, etc)
marketing department — the department of a commercial organization that deals with the marketing of products
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.
matched-pairs design — (of an experiment) concerned with measuring the values of the dependent variables for pairs of subjects that have been matched to eliminate individual differences and that are respectively subjected to the control and the experimental condition
maternal deprivation — the lack of a mother in a child's life, considered a cause of psychological problems later in life
mechanical advantage — the ratio of output force to the input force applied to a mechanism.
media access control — (networking) (MAC) The lower sublayer of the OSI data link layer. The interface between a node's Logical Link Control and the network's physical layer. The MAC differs for various physical media. See also MAC Address, Ethernet, IEEE 802.3, token ring.
medical practitioner — doctor
medical underwriting — Medical underwriting is the use of medical or health status information in the evaluation of an applicant for life or health insurance.
meta-dichlorobenzene — a colorless liquid, C 6 H 4 Cl 2 , soluble in alcohol and ether: used as a fumigant and insecticide.
metric hundredweight — a unit of weight equivalent to 50 kilograms.
midcourse correction — a navigational correction made in the course of a ship, airplane, rocket, or space vehicle at some point between the beginning and end of the journey.
middle-distance race — a race of a length between the sprints and the distance events, esp the 800 metres and the 1500 metres
minimum lending rate — the official interest rate charged by the Bank of England and below which it will refrain from lending money.

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