16-letter words containing d, o, l, m, a
- glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
- gold star mother — an American woman whose son or daughter has died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
- governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
- haemodynamically — from a hemodynamic point of view
- head normal form — (theory, reduction) (HNF) A term describing a lambda expression whose top level is either a variable, a data value, a built-in function applied to too few arguments, or a lambda abstraction whose body is not reducible. I.e. the top level is neither a redex nor a lambda abstraction with a reducible body. An expression in HNF may contain redexes in argument postions whereas a normal form may not. Compare Weak Head Normal Form.
- hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
- heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
- hodmezovasarhely — a city in SE Hungary.
- home health aide — a worker, usually trained and state-certified, who provides care for elderly, sick, or disabled people in their own home.
- hyaloid membrane — the delicate, pellucid, and nearly structureless membrane enclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
- hydroformylation — the addition of a hydrogen atom and the formyl group to a double bond of a hydrocarbon by reaction with a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst.
- hydroxylammonium — (inorganic compound) The univalent NH3OH+ cation, derived from hydroxylamine.
- hyperlipoidaemia — Alt form hyperlipoidemia.
- hypoaeolian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E, with the final on A.
- immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
- immunomodulation — Any of several adjustments in the level of an immune response.
- immunomodulatory — (medical) Having the ability to alter or regulate immune functions.
- indian meal moth — a small pyralid moth, Plodia interpunctella, whose larvae are an important pest of stored cereals.
- interdimensional — Between dimensions.
- kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
- land-poor farmer — a farmer who owns much unprofitable land and lacks the money to maintain its fertility or improve it
- laodicea ad mare — the chief port of Syria, in the northwest: tobacco industry. Pop: 486 000 (2005 est) (Latin name)
- latissimus dorsi — a broad, flat muscle on each side of the midback, the action of which draws the arm backward and downward and rotates the front of the arm toward the body.
- leasehold reform — reform of the law relating to leasehold property
- liberal democrat — In Britain, a Liberal Democrat is a member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
- limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
- limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
- lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
- machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
- macrolepidoptera — a collector's name for that part of the lepidoptera that comprises the butterflies and the larger moths (noctuids, geometrids, bombycids, springtails, etc): a term without taxonomic significance
- mad-dog skullcap — a North American skullcap, Scutellaria lateriflora, having underground stems and one-sided clusters of blue to white flowers.
- magellanic cloud — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
- maid of all work — a maid who does all types of housework
- mail-order house — a retail firm that conducts its business by receiving orders and shipping its merchandise through the mail and that supplies its customers with catalogs, circulars, etc.
- malcontentedness — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
- malicious damage — Malicious damage is damage caused on purpose to the property of another person.
- man of the world — a man who is widely experienced in the ways of the world and people; an urbane, sophisticated man.
- manganese nodule — a small irregular concretion found on deep ocean floors having high concentrations of certain metals, esp manganese
- many-plumed moth — a moth of the species, Alucita hexadactyla
- marmalade orange — a bitter variety of orange suitable for making marmalade
- mason-dixon line — the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, partly surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon between 1763 and 1767, popularly considered before the end of slavery as a line of demarcation between free and slave states.
- medal of bravery — a Canadian award for courage
- medal of freedom — a former name of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
- medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
- medulloblastomas — Plural form of medulloblastoma.
- melodic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- melodramatically — In a melodramatic manner.
- menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
- methodologically — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.