15-letter words containing d, l, c, i
- modestly priced — moderately priced; not overly expensive
- mononucleotides — Plural form of mononucleotide.
- multi-channeled — the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway.
- multidiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- muslim calendar — the lunar calendar used by Muslims and reckoned from a.d. 622: the calendar year consists of 354 days and contains 12 months: Moharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Shaban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu ʾl-Qaʿda, and Dhu ʾl-hijjah. In leap years the month Dhu ʾl-hijjah contains one extra day.
- myelodysplastic — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or showing evidence of myelodysplasia.
- napoleonic code — Code Napoléon
- nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
- nickel and dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
- nickel-and-dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
- nicobar islands — a group of 19 islands in the Indian Ocean, south of the Andaman Islands, with which they form a territory of India. Area: 1645 sq km (635 sq miles)
- non-capitalized — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- non-declarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- non-depreciable — capable of depreciating or being depreciated in value.
- non-dialectical — dialectic.
- non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- non-educational — pertaining to education.
- nonconfidential — not confidential
- nonconsolidated — (financial) Including the financial data of only the parent company.
- noncredentialed — not credentialed or lacking credentials
- nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- noninsecticidal — absent or free of insecticide
- nonmatriculated — not matriculated, not enrolled in an institution, esp a college or university
- nonmelodramatic — Not melodramatic.
- nonprecedential — Not precedential.
- nonreproducible — Unable to be reproduced; not reproducible.
- obedience trial — a competitive event at which a dog can progress toward a degree in obedience by demonstrating its ability to follow a prescribed series of commands.
- obsidional coin — siege piece.
- oedipus complex — the unresolved desire of a child for sexual gratification through the parent of the opposite sex, especially the desire of a son for his mother. This involves, first, identification with and, later, hatred for the parent of the same sex, who is considered by the child as a rival.
- office building — building containing offices
- oligodendrocyte — A glial cell similar to an astrocyte but with fewer protuberances, concerned with the production of myelin in the central nervous system.
- oligonucleotide — a chain of a few nucleotides.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- omnidirectional — sending or receiving signals in all directions: an omnidirectional microphone.
- orderly officer — Military. officer of the day, as in the British army or, formerly, in the U.S. Army.
- orthodontically — from an orthodontic point of view
- orthopaedically — in an orthopaedic manner
- out in the cold — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
- outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
- over-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
- over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
- overcapitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of overcapitalize.
- overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
- oxygen cylinder — a metal cylinder containing oxygen under pressure
- pacific islands — a U.S. trust territory in the Pacific Ocean, comprising the Mariana, Marshall, and Caroline Islands: approved by the United Nations 1947; since 1976 constituents of the trusteeship have established or moved toward self-government. 717 sq. mi. (1857 sq. km).
- package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
- paid-in capital — finance: payments from investors
- palindromically — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- paracel islands — a group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the N South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims by China and Vietnam