15-letter words containing d, r, y, i
- library binding — a tough, durable cloth binding for books. Compare edition binding.
- library edition — an edition of a book prepared for library use, especially with a library binding.
- liquidity ratio — the ratio of those assets that can easily be exchanged for money to the total assets of a bank or other financial institution
- listed security — a security that is quoted on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and appears in its Official List of Securities
- literary device — technique used in writing
- literary editor — someone who edits literature and books
- livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
- lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
- majority leader — the leader of the majority party in a legislative body, especially the party member who directs the activities of the majority party on the floor of either the Senate or the House of Representatives.
- marie byrd land — former name of Byrd Land.
- master cylinder — the hydraulic pump of an automotive braking system that contains a cylinder and one or two pistons, is actuated by the brake pedal, and supplies hydraulic fluid under pressure to the brakes at each wheel.
- maternity dress — a dress worn by a pregnant woman and which is designed to allow for the changes in body size which take place during pregnancy
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- methyl chloride — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Cl, used chiefly as a refrigerant, as a local anesthetic, and as a methylating agent in organic synthesis.
- michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
- microdiscectomy — (surgery) microdecompression.
- midsummer's day — Midsummer's Day or Midsummer Day is the 24th of June.
- minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
- minority leader — the party member who directs the activities of the minority party on the floor of a legislative body, as of the U.S. Congress.
- modal auxiliary — Grammar. any of the group of English auxiliary verbs, including can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would, and must, that are used with the base form of another verb to express distinctions of mood.
- modestly priced — moderately priced; not overly expensive
- morbidity table — A morbidity table is a statistical table that shows the proportion of people that are expected to become sick or injured at each age.
- neutral density — black, white, or a shade of grey; a colourless tone
- nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
- nizhny novgorod — city in central European Russia, at the Volga & Oka rivers: pop. 1,438,000
- noncreditworthy — Not creditworthy.
- nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- not a dickybird — not a word; nothing
- oligodendrocyte — A glial cell similar to an astrocyte but with fewer protuberances, concerned with the production of myelin in the central nervous system.
- oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
- orderly officer — Military. officer of the day, as in the British army or, formerly, in the U.S. Army.
- ordinary degree — a university degree without honours
- ordinary income — taxable income, as salary and wages, other than capital gains.
- ordinary rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable to that of a private in the army
- ordinary seaman — a seaman insufficiently skilled to be classified as an able-bodied seaman. Abbreviation: O.D., O.S., o.s.
- ordinary shares — British. a share of common stock.
- orthodontically — from an orthodontic point of view
- orthopaedically — in an orthopaedic manner
- overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
- oxygen cylinder — a metal cylinder containing oxygen under pressure
- oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
- palindromically — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- paradise valley — a town in SW Arizona.
- paternity order — a court order which declares a child's paternity
- periodic system — a system of classification of the elements based on the periodic law.
- perpendicularly — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- phenazopyridine — a substance, C 1 1 H 1 2 ClN 5 , used as a lower urinary tract analgesic.
- phenylhydrazine — a yellow, poisonous liquid or low-melting solid, C 6 H 8 N 2 , used in chemical analysis and organic synthesis.
- pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
- pituitary gland — a small, somewhat cherry-shaped double structure attached by a stalk to the base of the brain and constituting the master endocrine gland affecting all hormonal functions in the body, consisting of an anterior region ((anterior pituitary) or (adenohypophysis)) that develops embryonically from the roof of the mouth and that secretes growth hormone, LH, FSH, ACTH, TSH, and MSH, a posterior region ((posterior pituitary) or (neurohypophysis)) that develops from the back of the forebrain and that secretes the hormones vasopressin and oxytocin, and an intermediate part (pars intermedia) derived from the anterior region but joined to the posterior region, that secretes the hormone MSH in lower vertebrates.