16-letter words containing d, r, y, n

keyword indexing — the process of constructing or compiling an index to a document or other item by using keywords that describe the item.
kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
latter-day saint — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
laurel and hardy — a team of US film comedians, Stan Laurel, 1890–1965, born in Britain, the thin one, and his partner, Oliver Hardy, 1892–1957, the fat one
lay intermediary — a layperson who is interposed between a lawyer and client to prevent the existence of a direct relationship between them.
lazy standard ml — (language) (LSML) A lazy varient of SML, allowing cyclic val definitions, by Prateek Mishra <[email protected]>. Not to be confused with LML.
legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
lonely hearts ad — an advertisement placed by someone who is trying to find a lover or a friend
maleic anhydride — a colorless crystalline, unsaturated compound, C 4 H 2 O 3 , that is soluble in acetone and hydrolyzes in water: used in the production of polyester resins, pesticides, and fumaric and tartaric acids.
managed currency — a currency whose value is established and maintained by deliberate governmental action working through national and international financial institutions, in contrast to the quasi-automatic gold standard.
marshalling yard — a place or depot where railway wagons are shunted and made up into trains and where engines, carriages, etc, are kept when not in use
medium frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 kilohertz. Abbreviation: MF.
missionary ridge — a ridge in NW Georgia and SE Tennessee: Civil War battle 1863.
modern synthesis — a consolidation of the results of various lines of investigation from the 1920s through the 1950s that supported and reconciled the Darwinian theory of evolution and the Mendelian laws of inheritance in terms of natural selection acting on genetic variation.
molybdate orange — a pigment consisting of a solid solution of sulfate, molybdate, and chromate compounds of lead.
money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
monohybrid cross — the offspring of individuals that differ with respect to a particular gene pair.
mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
new world monkey — any of various arboreal anthropoid primates of the group or superfamily Platyrrhini, inhabiting forests from Mexico to Argentina and typically having a hairy face, widely separated nostrils, long arms, and a long, prehensile tail, and including the capuchin, douroucouli, howler monkey, marmoset, saki, spider monkey, squirrel monkey, titi, uakari, and woolly monkey.
new year's (day) — Jan. 1, the first day of a calendar year, usually celebrated as a legal holiday
newry and mourne — a district of SE Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 89 644 (2003 est). Area: 909 sq km (351 sq miles)
nine-days wonder — something that arouses great interest, but only for a short period
non-carbohydrate — any of a class of organic compounds that are polyhydroxy aldehydes or polyhydroxy ketones, or change to such substances on simple chemical transformations, as hydrolysis, oxidation, or reduction, and that form the supporting tissues of plants and are important food for animals and people.
nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
nondiscretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
old world monkey — any of various anthropoid primates of the family Cercopithecidae, of Africa, the Arabian peninsula, and Asia, typically having a hairless face, forward- or downward-directed nostrils, relatively short arms, flat nails, and either having a rudimentary tail or using the tail for balance rather than grasping, and including the baboon, colobus monkey, guenon, langur, macaque, mandrill, mangabey, patas, proboscis, and talapoin.
on your doorstep — If a place is on your doorstep, it is very near to where you live. If something happens on your doorstep, it happens very close to where you live.
opposed-cylinder — (of an internal-combustion engine) having cylinders on opposite sides of the crankcase in the same plane
orange men's day — July 12, an annual celebration in Northern Ireland and certain cities having a large Irish section, especially Liverpool, to mark both the victory of William III over James II at the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690, and the Battle of Augbrim, July 12, 1690.
ordinary jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
ordnance factory — a factory that makes military weapons and ammunition
orthodoxy sunday — a solemn festival held on the first Sunday of Lent (Orthodoxy Sunday) commemorating the restoration of the use of icons in the church (a.d. 842) and the triumph over all heresies.
out of your mind — If you say that someone is out of their mind, you mean that they are mad or very foolish.
parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
peegee hydrangea — a widely cultivated hydrangea, Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora, having pyramidal clusters of persistent flowers that are white on opening and turn pinkish as they mature.
periodic tenancy — the letting of a dwelling for a repeated short term, as by the week, month, or quarter, with no end date
perpendicularity — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
pharmacodynamics — the branch of pharmacology dealing with the course of action, effect, and breakdown of drugs within the body.
phytoremediation — a process of decontaminating soil or water by using plants and trees to absorb or break down pollutants.
pinot chardonnay — Chardonnay.
play one's cards — to carry out one's plans; take action (esp in the phrase play one's cards right)
polyhedral angle — a configuration consisting of the lateral faces of a polyhedron around one of its vertices. The portion of a pyramid including one of its points is such a configuration.
primary deviance — the violation of a norm or rule that does not result in the violator's being stigmatized as deviant.
primary industry — an industry, as agriculture, forestry, or fishing, that deals in obtaining natural materials.
process industry — business of treating raw materials
proteus syndrome — a condition caused by malfunction in cell growth, in which bone and flesh tissue overgrow in localized areas of the body

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