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16-letter words containing e, d, r, y

  • keyword indexing — the process of constructing or compiling an index to a document or other item by using keywords that describe the item.
  • kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
  • kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
  • l-glyceraldehyde — the levorotatory optical isomer of glyceraldehyde.
  • ladies auxiliary — an association whose members are usually the wives of members of an association with which it is affiliated.
  • lady of pleasure — a prostitute.
  • laserdisc player — a device that plays laserdiscs
  • latter-day saint — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • laurel and hardy — a team of US film comedians, Stan Laurel, 1890–1965, born in Britain, the thin one, and his partner, Oliver Hardy, 1892–1957, the fat one
  • lay intermediary — a layperson who is interposed between a lawyer and client to prevent the existence of a direct relationship between them.
  • legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
  • 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.
  • limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
  • limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
  • lloyd's register — a publication, issued annually by Lloyd's, consisting of a list of all of the world's seagoing vessels and including such information as their age, tonnage, and classification.
  • lonely hearts ad — an advertisement placed by someone who is trying to find a lover or a friend
  • lord proprietary — (in Colonial America) an owner, governor, or grantee of a proprietary colony
  • madame butterfly — an opera (1904) by Giacomo Puccini.
  • majority verdict — a decision supported by more than half, but not all, the jury
  • maleic anhydride — a colorless crystalline, unsaturated compound, C 4 H 2 O 3 , that is soluble in acetone and hydrolyzes in water: used in the production of polyester resins, pesticides, and fumaric and tartaric acids.
  • maleic hydrazide — a crystalline compound, C 4 N 2 H 4 O 2 , used as a plant growth inhibitor and weed-killer.
  • managed currency — a currency whose value is established and maintained by deliberate governmental action working through national and international financial institutions, in contrast to the quasi-automatic gold standard.
  • 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
  • medal of bravery — a Canadian award for courage
  • medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
  • medium artillery — guns and howitzers of more than 105mm and less than 155mm caliber, sometimes including the 155mm howitzers. Compare heavy artillery (def 2), light artillery (def 2).
  • medium frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 kilohertz. Abbreviation: MF.
  • medullary sheath — Botany. a narrow zone made up of the innermost layer of woody tissue immediately surrounding the pith in plants.
  • melodramatically — In a melodramatic manner.
  • mercury autocode — Autocode for the Ferranti Mercury machine.
  • mercury chloride — mercuric chloride
  • methacrylic acid — a colorless, liquid acid, C 4 H 6 O 2 , produced synthetically, whose methyl ester, methyl methacrylate, polymerizes to yield a clear plastic.
  • military academy — a private school organized somewhat along the lines of and following some of the procedures of military life.
  • missionary ridge — a ridge in NW Georgia and SE Tennessee: Civil War battle 1863.
  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • modern synthesis — a consolidation of the results of various lines of investigation from the 1920s through the 1950s that supported and reconciled the Darwinian theory of evolution and the Mendelian laws of inheritance in terms of natural selection acting on genetic variation.
  • molybdate orange — a pigment consisting of a solid solution of sulfate, molybdate, and chromate compounds of lead.
  • 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.
  • muddy the waters — If someone or something muddies the waters, they cause a situation or issue to seem less clear and less easy to understand.
  • new world monkey — any of various arboreal anthropoid primates of the group or superfamily Platyrrhini, inhabiting forests from Mexico to Argentina and typically having a hairy face, widely separated nostrils, long arms, and a long, prehensile tail, and including the capuchin, douroucouli, howler monkey, marmoset, saki, spider monkey, squirrel monkey, titi, uakari, and woolly monkey.
  • new year's (day) — Jan. 1, the first day of a calendar year, usually celebrated as a legal holiday
  • newry and mourne — a district of SE Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 89 644 (2003 est). Area: 909 sq km (351 sq miles)
  • nine-days wonder — something that arouses great interest, but only for a short period
  • non-carbohydrate — any of a class of organic compounds that are polyhydroxy aldehydes or polyhydroxy ketones, or change to such substances on simple chemical transformations, as hydrolysis, oxidation, or reduction, and that form the supporting tissues of plants and are important food for animals and people.
  • nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
  • nondiscretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
  • 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.
  • old world monkey — any of various anthropoid primates of the family Cercopithecidae, of Africa, the Arabian peninsula, and Asia, typically having a hairless face, forward- or downward-directed nostrils, relatively short arms, flat nails, and either having a rudimentary tail or using the tail for balance rather than grasping, and including the baboon, colobus monkey, guenon, langur, macaque, mandrill, mangabey, patas, proboscis, and talapoin.
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