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15-letter words containing d, y, n, o, e

  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • food technology — a branch of technology that is involved in the production of food
  • forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
  • fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
  • gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
  • general holiday — a public holiday
  • get any good of — to handle to good effect
  • glen canyon dam — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
  • glycogenic acid — gluconic acid.
  • golden boy/girl — If you refer to a man as a golden boy or a woman as a golden girl, you mean that they are especially popular and successful.
  • good king henry — a European, chenopodiaceous weed, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, naturalized in North America, having spinachlike leaves.
  • good-king-henry — a European, chenopodiaceous weed, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, naturalized in North America, having spinachlike leaves.
  • gorlin syndrome — a rare congenital disorder in which cancer destroys the facial skin and causes blindness; skeletal anomalies can also occur
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grey propaganda — propaganda that does not identify its source
  • gross indecency — sexual offence
  • have a derry on — to have a prejudice or grudge against
  • hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
  • hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
  • hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
  • holyhead island — former name of Holy Island (def 2).
  • horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
  • how do you mean — If you say 'How do you mean?' to someone, you are asking them to explain or give more details of what they have just said.
  • hughes syndrome — a condition of the autoimmune system caused by antibodies reacting against phospholipids, leading to thrombosis
  • hydrogen iodide — a colorless gas, HI, having a suffocating odor: the anhydride of hydriodic acid.
  • hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
  • hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
  • hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
  • hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
  • hypodorian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from A to A, with the final on D.
  • hypoionian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from G to G, with the final on C.
  • hypolydian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from C to C, with the final on F.
  • identity theory — a form of materialism which holds mental states to be identical with certain states of the brain and so to have no separate existence, but regards this identity as contingent so that mentalistic and physicalistic language are not held to be synonymous
  • imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
  • in line of duty — in the performance of authorized or prescribed military duty
  • in the old days — a long time ago
  • in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
  • incendiary bomb — a bomb that is designed to start fires
  • inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
  • indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
  • indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • keynote address — a speech, as at a political convention, that presents important issues, principles, policies, etc.
  • keystone comedy — a short film of the silent era, often featuring the Keystone Kops.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
  • lay of the land — the general state or condition of affairs under consideration; the facts of a situation: We asked a few questions to get the lay of the land.
  • learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
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