16-letter words containing d, o, l, t, s
- feme-sole trader — a married woman who is entitled to carry on business on her own account and responsibility, independently of her husband.
- floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
- friendly society — law: mutual group providing benefits
- gender selection — choosing the sex of a baby
- gilt-edged stock — government stock on which interest payments will certainly be met and that will certainly be repaid at par on the due date
- gold star mother — an American woman whose son or daughter has died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
- goldsmith beetle — a brilliant golden scarabaeid beetle, Cetonia aurata, of Europe.
- health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
- household knight — bachelor (def 5).
- household troops — the infantry and cavalry regiments that carry out escort and guard duties for a head of state
- household-knight — an unmarried man.
- hypsilophodontid — An informal grouping of small ornithopod dinosaurs, regarded as fast, herbivorous bipeds on the order of 1\u20132 meters long (3.3-6.6 feet).
- immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
- industrial union — a labor union composed of workers in various trades and crafts within one industry.
- inter-divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- interdimensional — Between dimensions.
- isle of portland — a rugged limestone peninsula in SW England, in Dorset, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus and by Chesil Bank: the lighthouse of Portland Bill lies at the S tip; famous for the quarrying of Portland stone, a fine building material. Pop (town): 12 000 (latest est)
- isophthalic acid — a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 8 H 6 O 2 , the meta isomer of phthalic acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins and plasticizers.
- jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
- 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.
- lead by the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
- leconte de lisle — Charles Marie [sharl ma-ree] /ʃarl maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1818–94, French poet.
- level descriptor — one of a set of criteria used to assess the performance of a pupil in a particular subject
- limited-stop bus — a bus which only stops at a small number of predetermined stops, rather than on request
- lloyd's register — a publication, issued annually by Lloyd's, consisting of a list of all of the world's seagoing vessels and including such information as their age, tonnage, and classification.
- lonely hearts ad — an advertisement placed by someone who is trying to find a lover or a friend
- long-established — having a long history; old
- long-nosed skate — a fish; Raja oxyrinchus
- malcontentedness — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
- medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
- medulloblastomas — Plural form of medulloblastoma.
- menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
- middle stone age — the Mesolithic period.
- mineral deposits — amounts of minerals that occur naturally in particular areas
- monocotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the monocotyledons.
- most wanted list — an actual or supposed listing of the names of persons who are urgently being sought for a specific reason, as apprehension for an alleged crime.
- multidimensional — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
- mustard-coloured — of a brownish-yellow colour
- nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
- off-the-shoulder — not covering the shoulder
- oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
- on the sidelines — in the area along the sidelines
- otherworldliness — The quality of being otherworldly.
- parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium
- personal details — details about a person such as their name and address
- phase modulation — radio transmission in which the carrier wave is modulated by changing its phase to transmit the amplitude and pitch of the signal.
- pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).