16-letter words containing d, y, e
- do the necessary — to do something that is necessary in a particular situation
- do-it-yourselfer — an advocate or enthusiast of do-it-yourself
- doctor's surgery — A doctor's surgery is the same as a doctor's office.
- documentary film — factual, informative film
- dodecyl aldehyde — lauric aldehyde.
- domiciliary care — services, such as meals-on-wheels, health visiting, and home help, provided by a welfare agency for people in their own homes
- dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
- double indemnity — a clause in a life-insurance or accident-insurance policy providing for payment of twice the face value of the policy in the event of accidental death.
- double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
- double occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as in a hotel, for two persons sharing the same room: The rate is $35 per person, double occupancy, or $65, single occupancy.
- down memory lane — If you say that someone is taking a walk or trip down memory lane, you mean that they are talking, writing, or thinking about something that happened to them a long time ago.
- down one's alley — a passage, as through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the street to backyards, garages, etc.
- downy woodpecker — a small, North American woodpecker, Picoides pubescens, having black and white plumage.
- dramatic society — an amateur dramatics club
- drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
- dry-cell battery — a dry battery
- dual carriageway — divided highway.
- dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
- duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
- dyed-in-the-wool — through and through; complete: a dyed-in-the-wool reformer.
- dyer's greenweed — woadwaxen.
- dyer's-greenweed — woadwaxen.
- dynamic language — (language) (Dylan) A simple object-oriented Lisp dialect, most closely resembling CLOS and Scheme, developed by Advanced Technology Group East at Apple Computer. See also Marlais.
- dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
- earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
- echocardiography — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
- electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
- elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
- embroidery frame — a frame in the form of a pair of (usually circular) rings, designed to keep the fabric taut while an embroiderer works on it
- encyclopedically — In an encyclopedic way; in the manner of an encyclopedia.
- ending inventory — An ending inventory is all of the goods, services, or materials that a business has available for use or sale at the end of an accounting period.
- endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
- ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
- ethnomethodology — A method of sociological analysis that examines how individuals use everyday conversation and gestures to construct a common-sense view of the world.
- expected utility — the weighted average utility of the possible outcomes of a probabilistic situation; the sum or integral of the product of the probability distribution and the utility function
- fancy dress ball — a ball at which the guests wear fancy dress
- federalist party — a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.
- ferricyanic acid — a brown, crystalline, unstable, water-soluble solid, H 3 Fe(CN) 6 , obtained by the interaction of a ferricyanide and an acid.
- ferrocyanic acid — a white, crystalline, unstable, water-soluble solid, H 4 Fe(CN) 6 , obtained by the interaction of a ferrocyanide and an acid.
- firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
- 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
- follow-my-leader — a game in which the players must repeat the actions of the leader
- forefathers' day — the anniversary of the day (December 21, 1620, in Old Style December 11) on which the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Mass. Owing to an error in changing the date from the Old Style to the New, it is generally observed on December 22.
- forward delivery — delivery at a future date.
- french directory — the body of five directors in power in France from 1795 until their overthrow by Napoleon in 1799
- freshly squeezed — You can describe juice that has been recently pressed out of fruit as freshly squeezed.
- friendly islands — Tonga
- friendly society — law: mutual group providing benefits
- fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
- gelatin dynamite — a high explosive consisting of a gelatinized mass of nitroglycerin with cellulose nitrate added.