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17-letter words containing d, o, n, y

  • i wouldn't say no — You use 'I wouldn't say no' to indicate that you would like something, especially something that has just been offered to you.
  • identity function — identity (def 9d).
  • identity politics — political activity or movements based on or catering to the cultural, ethnic, gender, racial, religious, or social interests that characterize a group identity.
  • idiosyncratically — pertaining to the nature of idiosyncrasy, or something peculiar to an individual: The best minds are idiosyncratic and unpredictable as they follow the course of scientific discovery.
  • if you don't mind — People use the expression if you don't mind when they are rejecting an offer or saying that they do not want to do something, especially when they are annoyed.
  • in broad daylight — openly, in full public view
  • infantry division — a military division composed of infantry
  • inverted snobbery — the attitude of an inverted snob
  • italian greyhound — one of an Italian breed of toy dogs resembling a greyhound.
  • kawasaki syndrome — a syndrome, usually afflicting children, characterized by high fever, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, rashes, irritated eyes and mucous membranes, etc. with possible damage to the cardiovascular system
  • keyboard commando — (messaging)   A bulletin board user who posts authoritatively on military or combat topics, but who has never served in uniform or heard a shot fired in anger. A poseur.
  • knowledge economy — an economy in which information services are dominant as an area of growth
  • lady of the night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
  • lady-of-the-night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
  • liquidity cushion — a reserve fund of assets held by a company or person
  • livingstone daisy — a gardener's name for various species of Mesembryanthemum, esp M. criniflorum, grown as garden annuals (though several are perennial) for their brightly coloured showy flowers: family Aizoaceae
  • lloyd's of london — Lloyd's of London is an association of London underwriters which originally specialized in marine insurance but now provides a variety of insurance policies.
  • lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
  • majority decision — a decision supported by more than half the people involved
  • many-valued logic — the study of logical systems in which the truth-values that a proposition may have are not restricted to two, representing only truth and falsity
  • method of payment — cash, credit card, cheque, etc.
  • methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
  • midmorning prayer — the third of the seven canonical hours; terce
  • mind-body problem — the problem of explaining the relation of the mind to the body.
  • money-market fund — a mutual fund that invests in the money market.
  • monkey bread tree — a bombacaceous tree, Adansonia digitata, native to Africa, that has a very thick trunk, large white flowers, and a gourdlike fruit with an edible pulp called monkey bread
  • monkeygland sauce — a piquant sauce, made from tomatoes, ketchup, fruit chutney, garlic, spices, etc
  • mundane astrology — the astrology of worldly events, in contrast to the astrology of the individual: used especially in interpretations and forecasts involving politics, the stock market, weather, and disasters.
  • national identity — characteristics of a given nationality
  • new scotland yard — See under Scotland Yard (def 1).
  • nine days' wonder — an event or thing that arouses considerable but short-lived interest or excitement.
  • ninety-day wonder — an officer commissioned in a branch of the armed forces after an unusually short training period, especially after a three-months officers' training course during World War II.
  • nitrohydrochloric — (chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitric acid and hydrochloric acids.
  • non-discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • nondiscriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
  • not bat an eyelid — When something surprising or shocking happens, if someone doesn't bat an eyelid in British English, or doesn't bat an eye in American English, they remain calm and do not show any reaction.
  • nursery education — education provided at a school for young children, usually from three to five years old
  • occipital condyle — a protrusion on the occipital bone of the skull that forms a joint with the first cervical vertebra, enabling the head to move relative to the neck.
  • odour of sanctity — sanctimoniousness
  • off duty, on duty — If someone such as a policeman or a nurse is off duty, they are not working. If someone is on duty, they are working.
  • on (or off) duty — at (or temporarily relieved from) one's work, duty, etc.
  • on the heavy side — tending to be too heavy
  • one of these days — at some future time
  • online dictionary — a dictionary that is available on the Internet or World Wide Web and accessed through a Web browser using a computer or a mobile device, primarily by typing a query term into a search box on the site. Online dictionaries like Dictionary.com offer immediate, direct access through large databases to a word's spelling and meanings, plus a host of ancillary information, including its variant spellings, pronunciation, inflected forms, origin, and derived forms, as well as supplementary notes on matters of interest or concern about how the word is used: Some people think online dictionaries will make print dictionaries obsolete.
  • oyer and terminer — (in some U.S. states) any of various higher criminal courts.
  • parathyroid gland — any of several small oval glands usually lying near or embedded in the thyroid gland.
  • peridot of ceylon — a honey-colored tourmaline, used as a gem: not a true peridot.
  • phenylformic acid — benzoic acid.
  • photoconductivity — the increase in the electrical conductivity of a substance, often nonmetallic, caused by the absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
  • pocket dictionary — a small portable dictionary
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