16-letter words containing d, o, g, e, l
- old-girl network — an association among women that is comparable to or modeled on an old-boy network.
- oligodendroglial — Of or pertaining to the oligodendroglia.
- oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
- oligosaccharides — Plural form of oligosaccharide.
- orange marmalade — preserve made from oranges
- organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
- partial ordering — a relation defined on a set, having the properties that each element is in relation to itself, the relation is transitive, and if two elements are in relation to each other, the two elements are equal.
- pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
- picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
- polyhedral angle — a configuration consisting of the lateral faces of a polyhedron around one of its vertices. The portion of a pyramid including one of its points is such a configuration.
- prolonged-action — sustained-release.
- pseudo-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
- religious leader — head of a church or order
- revised algol 60 — ALGOL 60 Revised
- revolving credit — credit automatically available up to a predetermined limit while payments are periodically made. Compare credit line (def 2).
- robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
- room methodology — Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling
- rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
- rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
- school-age child — a child who is old enough to go to school
- sebaceous glands — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
- self-degradation — the act of degrading.
- self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- self-designation — a name taken for oneself or one's own people
- self-indignation — strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
- self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
- slubberdegullion — a slovenly or worthless person
- so help me (god) — I swear
- teutoburger wald — a chain of wooded hills in Germany, in Westphalia: Romans defeated by German tribes a.d.
- the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
- the mekong delta — the area where the Mekong River empties into the sea through distributaries
- tierra del fuego — a group of islands at the S tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: jointly owned by Argentina and Chile; boundary disputed. 27,476 sq. mi. (71,165 sq. km).
- to get cold feet — If you get cold feet about something, you become nervous or frightened about it because you think it will fail.
- transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
- under the plough — If an area of land is under the plough, it is used for growing crops. If land is brought or put under the plough, it is ploughed for the first time and is then used for growing crops.
- vinylidene group — the bivalent group C 2 H 2 , derived from ethylene.
- wild goose chase — a wild or absurd search for something nonexistent or unobtainable: a wild-goose chase looking for a building long demolished.
- wild-goose chase — a wild or absurd search for something nonexistent or unobtainable: a wild-goose chase looking for a building long demolished.
- yellow underwing — any of several species of noctuid moths (Noctua and Anarta species), the hind wings of which are yellow with a black bar