17-letter words containing d, r, y, l, a, n
- hydrothermal vent — an opening on the floor of the sea from which hot, mineral-rich solutions issue. Compare vent1 (def 2).
- hypochondriacally — In a hypochondriacal manner.
- 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.
- in broad daylight — openly, in full public view
- indecipherability — Quality of being indecipherable.
- industrial injury — an injury sustained by an employee of an industrial company during the course of their work
- interdisciplinary — combining or involving two or more academic disciplines or fields of study: The economics and history departments are offering an interdisciplinary seminar on Asia.
- italian greyhound — one of an Italian breed of toy dogs resembling a greyhound.
- jurisprudentially — In terms of jurisprudence.
- kidney transplant — surgery to replace a kidney
- latter-day saints — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- mentally impaired — with reduced or weakened mental capacity
- multidisciplinary — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
- 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.
- naked singularity — an infinitely dense point mass without a surrounding black hole
- new scotland yard — See under Scotland Yard (def 1).
- 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.
- parathyroid gland — any of several small oval glands usually lying near or embedded in the thyroid gland.
- phenylformic acid — benzoic acid.
- plastics industry — the industry that makes plastics
- prelingually deaf — deaf from birth or having acquired deafness before learning to speak
- pull your head in — be quiet!
- purely and simply — You use purely and simply to emphasize that the thing you are mentioning is the only thing involved.
- pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
- regulated tenancy — (in Britain) the letting of a dwelling by a nonresident private landlord, usually at a registered fair rent, from which the landlord cannot evict the tenant without a possession order from a court
- sanitary landfill — landfill.
- school playground — school's outdoor recreation area
- secondary glazing — insulation by means of a second pane of glass, or a sheet of plastic: a simple form of double glazing
- secondary quality — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
- secondary sealing — Secondary sealing is a system of wiper seals used in floating roof tanks.
- shorthold tenancy — letting of a dwelling for between one and five years at a fair rent
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
- stymphalian birds — a flock of predacious birds of Arcadia that were driven away and killed by Hercules as one of his labors.
- tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
- understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- undulatory theory — wave theory (def 1).
- vascular cylinder — stele (sense 3)
- williams syndrome — an abnormality in the genes involved in calcium metabolism, resulting in learning difficulties