16-letter words containing e, d, u, l, c
- in quadruplicate — in four identical copies
- 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
- indian liquorice — a woody leguminous climbing plant, Abrus precatorius, native to tropical Asia and naturalized elsewhere, having scarlet black-spotted poisonous seeds, used as beads, and roots used as a substitute for liquorice
- induced topology — a topology of a subset of a topological space, obtained by intersecting the subset with every open set in the topology of the space.
- intellectualised — Simple past tense and past participle of intellectualise.
- intellectualized — Simple past tense and past participle of intellectualize.
- kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
- knuckle sandwich — a punch in the mouth with a clenched fist.
- la rochefoucauld — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.
- labrador current — a cold ocean current flowing southwards off the coast of Labrador and meeting the warm Gulf Stream, causing dense fogs off the coast of Newfoundland
- lenticular cloud — a very smooth, round or oval, lens-shaped cloud that is often seen, singly or stacked in groups, near a mountain ridge.
- lithium chloride — a white, water-soluble, deliquescent, crystalline solid, LiCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of mineral water, especially lithia water, and as a flux in metallurgy.
- lucas van leyden — (Lucas Hugensz) 1494–1533, Dutch painter and engraver.
- luck of the draw — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
- magellanic cloud — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
- malicious damage — Malicious damage is damage caused on purpose to the property of another person.
- masculine ending — a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
- mercuric sulfide — a crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous compound, HgS, occurring as a coarse, black powder (black mercuric sulfide) or as a fine, bright-scarlet powder (red mercuric sulfide) used chiefly as a pigment and as a source of the free metal.
- mercury chloride — mercuric chloride
- monocotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the monocotyledons.
- moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
- moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
- multi-discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
- multidisciplined — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
- munchen-gladbach — former name of Mönchengladbach.
- musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
- mustard-coloured — of a brownish-yellow colour
- mutual impedance — the ratio of the potential difference between either of two pairs of terminals to the current applied at the other pair of terminals when the circuit is open.
- nature-identical — manufactured to be identical to a natural substance
- nevado de toluca — a volcano in central Mexico, in Mexico state near Toluca: crater partly filled by a lake. Height: 4577 m (15 017 ft)
- no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
- non-reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
- nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
- nuclear medicine — diagnostic and therapeutic medical techniques using radionuclides or radioisotopes.
- 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.
- oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
- order in council — (in Britain and various other Commonwealth countries) a decree of the Cabinet, usually made under the authority of a statute: in theory a decree of the sovereign and Privy Council
- panel discussion — a formal discussion before an audience for which the topic, speakers, etc., have been selected in advance.
- percussion drill — a drill that is operated by percussion
- perez de cuellar — Javier [hah-vyer] /hɑˈvyɛr/ (Show IPA), born 1920, Peruvian diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations 1982–91; prime minister of Peru 2000–2001.
- perforated ulcer — an ulcer that bursts through the stomach wall and leaks food and gastric juices into the abdominal cavity
- perpendicularity — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- persulfuric acid — Also called Caro's acid, permonosulfuric acid, peroxymonosulfuric acid, peroxysulfuric acid. a white, crystalline solid, H 2 SO 5 , used as an oxidizing agent for certain organic compounds.
- picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
- pleased as punch — the chief male character in a Punch-and-Judy show.