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16-letter words containing d, o, i, t, e

  • bed-sitting room — a combined bedroom and sitting room serving as a one-room apartment
  • benzotrichloride — a colorless or yellowish liquid, C 7 H 5 Cl 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes.
  • benzotrifluoride — a colorless, flammable liquid, C 7 H 5 F 3 , used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals, and as a solvent.
  • beside the point — If you say that something is beside the point, you mean that it is not relevant to the subject that you are discussing.
  • bidirectionality — capable of reacting or functioning in two, usually opposite, directions.
  • billy goat beard — a man's beard that is long under the chin and shaved elsewhere
  • biodegradability — capable of decaying through the action of living organisms: biodegradable paper; biodegradable detergent.
  • biodeterioration — biodegradation.
  • biometric device — biometrics
  • bird's-nest soup — a rich spicy Chinese soup made from the outer part of the nests of SE Asian swifts of the genus Collocalia
  • 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
  • blow the lid off — a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
  • bordeaux mixture — a fungicide consisting of a solution of equal quantities of copper sulphate and quicklime
  • 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
  • botanical garden — a place where collections of plants and trees are kept for scientific study and exhibition
  • boundary dispute — dispute between neighbours about the boundary between their properties
  • bred-in-the-bone — firmly instilled or established as if by heredity: the bred-in-the-bone integrity of the school's headmaster.
  • 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.
  • burgundy trefoil — alfalfa.
  • butenedioic acid — either of two geometrical isomers with the formula HOOCCH:CHCOOH
  • butterfly orchid — an orchid (Oncidium papilio) with reddish flowers, native to South America
  • call of the wild — a novel (1903) by Jack London.
  • cape cod lighter — a device for lighting a fire, as in a fireplace, consisting of a lump of nonflammable material on a metal rod, that is soaked in kerosene or the like and lighted with a match.
  • capital employed — the money used by a business for buying land, buildings, equipment etc
  • carboxypeptidase — any of several digestive enzymes that catalyze the removal of an amino acid from the end of a peptide chain having a free carbonyl group.
  • cardiotachometer — a device for counting heartbeats, usually displaying the number of beats per minute
  • casting director — the person in charge of choosing of actors for a production
  • catherine howard — Catherine, c1520–42, fifth wife of Henry VIII.
  • cedar revolution — the popular protests in 2005 that brought down the Lebanese cabinet and prompted Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon
  • checking deposit — a deposit on which cheques may be drawn
  • chiclet keyboard — (hardware, abuse)   A keyboard with a small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of Chiclets chewing gum. Used especially to describe the original IBM PCjr keyboard. Vendors unanimously liked these because they were cheap, and a lot of early portable and laptop computers were launched with them. Customers rejected the idea with almost equal unanimity, and chiclets are not often seen on anything larger than a digital watch any more.
  • chipped potatoes — chips
  • chloracetic acid — chloroacetic acid.
  • chlorinated lime — bleaching powder.
  • cigarette holder — A cigarette holder is a narrow tube that you can put a cigarette into in order to hold it while you smoke it.
  • city of aberdeen — a council area in NE Scotland, established in 1996. Pop: 206 600 (2003 est). Area: 186 sq km (72 sq miles)
  • cladogenetically — By means of cladogenesis.
  • cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
  • 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.
  • clootie dumpling — a boiled suet pudding containing dried fruits
  • 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
  • co-determination — a system of industrial management in which workers share responsibility for the operation of a company, as through elected representation on a corporate supervisory board
  • code of practice — A code of practice is a set of written rules which explains how people working in a particular profession should behave.
  • coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
  • come and get it! — the meal is ready!
  • common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
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