16-letter words containing d, u, s, t, c, a
- academic costume — the ceremonial garb of the students and faculty in schools, colleges, and universities, consisting of a flat cap (mortarboard), a long, wide-sleeved gown, and sometimes a hood, worn especially at commencement exercises.
- accrued interest — interest which has been earned since an investment was made or since a previous interest payment
- acid house party — a professionally organized party for young people, with Acid House music, sometimes held in a field or disused building
- acoustic torpedo — a torpedo guided by sound that either emanates from the target or is emitted by the torpedo and bounces off the target.
- acoustical cloud — one of a number of acoustic panels installed near the ceiling of a concert hall to reflect sound for improving the acoustic quality of music.
- activated sludge — a mass of aerated precipitated sewage added to untreated sewage to bring about purification by hastening decomposition by microorganisms
- adjective clause — a relative clause that modifies a noun or pronoun, as the clause that I told you about in This is the book that I told you about and who saw us in It was she who saw us.
- adjustable-pitch — (of a marine or aircraft propeller) having blades whose pitch can be changed while the propeller is stationary, chiefly to suit various conditions of navigation or flight.
- advice columnist — An advice columnist is a person who writes a column in a newspaper or magazine in which they reply to readers who have written to them for advice on their personal problems.
- american mustard — a mild yellow mustard
- amusement arcade — An amusement arcade is a place where you can play games on machines which work when you put money in them.
- assisted suicide — suicide committed with the assistance of a physician by a person terminally ill or in unmanageable pain
- auditory vesicle — the pouch that is formed by the invagination of an ectodermal placode and that develops into the internal ear.
- banned substance — In sport, banned substances are drugs that competitors are not allowed to take because they could artificially improve their performance.
- bastard culverin — a 16th-century cannon, smaller than a culverin, firing a shot of between 5 and 8 pounds (11 and 17.6 kg).
- cardinal virtues — the most important moral qualities, traditionally justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude
- cause and effect — You use cause and effect to talk about the way in which one thing is caused by another.
- cause-and-effect — noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.
- circumstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumstantiate.
- cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
- cloistered vault — a vault having the form of a number of intersecting coves.
- cluster headache — a type of recurrent headache characterized by sudden onset and intense pain on one side of the face near the eye
- consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
- consubstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of consubstantiate.
- cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
- crash test dummy — a dummy used in crash tests
- cut a wide swath — to make an ostentatious display or forceful impression
- data acquisition — data logging
- davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
- deboursification — (jargon) Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
- dental insurance — Dental insurance is insurance that pays for treatment by a dentist.
- dependent clause — a clause that cannot function syntactically as a complete sentence by itself but has a nominal, adjectival, or adverbial function within a larger sentence; subordinate clause (Ex.: She will visit us if she can.)
- deputy secretary — the Deputy Secretary of State or Defense etc
- discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
- discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discountenancing — Present participle of discountenance.
- disqualification — an act or instance of disqualifying.
- distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
- divisional court — a high court in which at least two judges sit
- dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
- dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
- exchange student — sb who studies abroad
- focused strategy — a business strategy in which an organization divests itself of all but its core activities, using the funds raised to enhance the distinctive abilities that give it an advantage over its rivals
- fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
- ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
- guaranteed stock — stock for which dividends are guaranteed by a company other than the one issuing the stock.
- hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
- incidental music — music intended primarily to point up or accompany parts of the action of a play or to serve as transitional material between scenes.
- indecent assault — a sexual offense, other than rape, committed by one person against another.
- indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
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