16-letter words containing d, u, r, o, y

in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
inauguration day — the day on which the president of the United States is inaugurated, being January 20 of every year following a year whose number is divisible by four. Prior to the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution (ratified February 6, 1933), it was March 4.
jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
lady of pleasure — a prostitute.
leveraged buyout — the purchase of a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral, and often discharging the debt and realizing a profit by liquidating the company. Abbreviation: LBO.
measured daywork — a system of wage payment, usually determined by work-study techniques, whereby the wage of an employee is fixed on the understanding that a specific level of work performance will be maintained
mercury autocode — Autocode for the Ferranti Mercury machine.
mercury chloride — mercuric chloride
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.
mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
newry and mourne — a district of SE Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 89 644 (2003 est). Area: 909 sq km (351 sq miles)
nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
ocellated turkey — a wild turkey, Agriocharis ocellata, of Yucatán, Belize, and Guatemala, typically having green, blue, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and eyelike spots on the tail.
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.
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)
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.
primary producer — any green plant or any of various microorganisms that can convert light energy or chemical energy into organic matter.
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
pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
pyroconductivity — conductivity brought about by the application of heat, especially in solids that are not conductors at normal temperatures.
radioimmunoassay — a test procedure that integrates immunologic and radiolabeling techniques to measure minute quantities of a substance, as a protein, hormone, or drug, in a given sample of body fluid or tissue.
redundancy money — a sum of money given by an employer to an employee who has been made redundant: usually calculated on the basis of the employee's rate of pay and length of service
sandstone quarry — a quarry from which sand is extracted
secondary colour — a colour formed by mixing two primary colours
secondary source — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
secondary tissue — tissue derived from cambium.
sodium hydroxide — a white, deliquescent, water-soluble solid, NaOH, usually in the form of lumps, sticks, chips, or pellets, that upon solution in water generates heat: used chiefly in the manufacture of other chemicals, rayon, film, soap, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as a caustic.
synchronous dram — Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
synchronous idle — (character) (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22.
the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
to dip your toes — If you dip your toes into something or dip your toes into the waters of something, you start doing that thing slowly and carefully, because you are not sure whether it will be successful or whether you will like it.
to hold your own — If you hold your own, you are able to resist someone who is attacking or opposing you.
to try your hand — If you try your hand at an activity, you attempt to do it, usually for the first time.
tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
tourist industry — the people, activities, and organizations involved in providing services for people on holiday, for example hotels, restaurants, and tour guides
treaty of verdun — an agreement reached in 843 ad by three grandsons of Charlemagne, dividing his empire into an E kingdom (later Germany), a W kingdom (later France), and a middle kingdom (containing what became the Low Countries, Lorraine, Burgundy, and N Italy)
un-contradictory — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
under-employment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
undiscriminatory — 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.
vinylidene group — the bivalent group C 2 H 2 , derived from ethylene.
yellow underwing — any of several species of noctuid moths (Noctua and Anarta species), the hind wings of which are yellow with a black bar

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