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16-letter words containing e, a, r, l, y, o

  • 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.
  • mulberry harbour — either of two prefabricated floating harbours towed across the English Channel to the French coast for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944
  • national gallery — a major art gallery in London, in Trafalgar Square. Founded in 1824, it contains the largest collection of paintings in Britain
  • national lottery — the largest UK lottery organization
  • natural theology — theology based on knowledge of the natural world and on human reason, apart from revelation.
  • network analysis — a mathematical method of analyzing complex problems, as in transportation or project scheduling, by representing the problem as a network of lines and nodes.
  • neurohypophyseal — Relating to the neurohypophysis.
  • neurohypophysial — Relating to the neurohypophysis.
  • non-transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
  • observationality — The property of being observational.
  • occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
  • 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.
  • orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
  • 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)
  • organoleptically — In an organoleptic manner.
  • osteoarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the study of bones found at archaeological sites
  • over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
  • overall majority — If a political party wins an overall majority in an election or vote, they get more votes than the total number of votes or seats won by all their opponents.
  • overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
  • overexcitability — to excite too much.
  • overhead railway — elevated railroad.
  • paraformaldehyde — a white, crystalline polymer of formaldehyde, (HCOH) n , from which it is obtained by evaporation of the aqueous solution: used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
  • pays de la loire — a region of W France, on the Bay of Biscay: generally low-lying, drained by the River Loire and its tributaries; agricultural
  • pearly razorfish — See under razorfish.
  • personal hygiene — bodily cleanliness
  • personal liberty — the liberty of an individual to do his or her will freely except for those restraints imposed by law to safeguard the physical, moral, political, and economic welfare of others.
  • personal stylist — a person employed by a rich or famous client to offer advice on clothes, hairstyles, and other aspects of personal appearance
  • personality cult — deliberately cultivated adulation of a person, esp a political leader
  • personality test — an instrument, as a questionnaire or series of standardized tasks, used to measure personality characteristics or to discover personality disorders.
  • personality type — a cluster of personality traits commonly occurring together
  • personnel agency — an agency for placing employable persons in jobs; employment agency.
  • 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.
  • portrait gallery — a gallery where pictures are displayed
  • potential energy — the energy of a body or a system with respect to the position of the body or the arrangement of the particles of the system.
  • prerevolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • primary election — primary (def 15a).
  • primary electron — in thermionics, any of the electrons falling on a body, distinguished from those emitted by it
  • pulmonary artery — an artery conveying venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs.
  • radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
  • read only memory — ROM.
  • read-only memory — ROM.
  • restriction play — a limited number of opening moves that are predetermined by their chance selection from an accepted list.
  • rhynchocephalian — belonging or pertaining to the Rhynchocephalia, an order of lizardlike reptiles that are extinct except for the tuatara.
  • rotary lawnmower — a lawn mower with a single blade attached in the middle that rotates as the mower is moved
  • royal water lily — a water lily, Victoria amazonica (or V. regia), of the Amazon River and British Guiana, having floating leaves from three to six feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters) wide, the upturned margins from two to four inches (5 to 10 cm) high, and dull crimson flowers.
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • secondary colour — a colour formed by mixing two primary colours
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
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