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16-letter words containing g, r, i, n, d, e

  • ironbridge gorge — a gorge formed by the river Severn in Shropshire; named after the Iron Bridge (1779), the first iron bridge of its kind in the world, now a monument to the Industrial Revolution
  • italian dressing — a strongly flavored vinaigrette for salads, containing garlic, oregano, red peppers, etc.
  • karadeniz bogazi — Bosporus
  • keyword indexing — the process of constructing or compiling an index to a document or other item by using keywords that describe the item.
  • kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
  • kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
  • ladies'-earrings — lady's-earrings.
  • landed immigrant — foreigner: permanent resident
  • led page printer — LED printer
  • 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.
  • liebig condenser — a laboratory condenser consisting of a glass tube surrounded by a glass envelope through which cooling water flows
  • lightheartedness — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • little englander — an English person who believes the best interests of Britain are served by attention to Britain itself, rather than to the concerns of the empire.
  • market gardening — Chiefly British. truck farm.
  • measuring device — gauge
  • missionary ridge — a ridge in NW Georgia and SE Tennessee: Civil War battle 1863.
  • misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
  • 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.
  • moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
  • nightingale ward — a long hospital ward with beds on either side and the nurses' station in the middle
  • nitrogen dioxide — a reddish-brown, highly poisonous gas, NO 2 , used as an intermediate in the manufacture of nitric and sulfuric acids, and as a nitrating and oxidizing agent; a major air pollutant from the exhaust of internal combustion engines that are not fitted with pollution control devices.
  • nitrogen mustard — any of the class of poisonous, blistering compounds, as C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, analogous in composition to mustard gas but containing nitrogen instead of sulfur: used in the treatment of cancer and similar diseases; mechlorethamine.
  • no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • nonbiodegradable — Not biodegradable.
  • noncorresponding — That does not correspond (to something else).
  • north ridgeville — a town in N Ohio.
  • norwegian buhund — a slightly-built medium-sized dog of a breed with erect pointed ears and a short thick tail carried curled over its back
  • objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
  • odds are against — If you say that the odds are against something or someone, you mean that they are unlikely to succeed.
  • old-girl network — an association among women that is comparable to or modeled on an old-boy network.
  • oligodendroglial — Of or pertaining to the oligodendroglia.
  • open-die forging — Open-die forging is a forging process in which the flow of metal is not kept completely in the die.
  • operating budget — money allocated to a project
  • organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
  • partial ordering — a relation defined on a set, having the properties that each element is in relation to itself, the relation is transitive, and if two elements are in relation to each other, the two elements are equal.
  • permanganic acid — an acid, HMnO 4 , known only in solution.
  • picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
  • point de hongrie — flame stitch.
  • portuguese india — a former Portuguese overseas territory on the W coast of India, consisting of the districts of Gôa, Daman, and Diu: annexed by India December 1961. Capital: Gôa.
  • praetorian guard — the bodyguard of a military commander, especially the imperial guard stationed in Rome.
  • preserved ginger — fresh ginger preserved in syrup and used in cooking, esp desserts
  • pressure welding — the welding together of two objects by holding them together under pressure.
  • prestidigitation — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
  • preunderstanding — to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
  • private judgment — personal opinion formed independently of the expressed position of an institution, as in matters of religion or politics.
  • project guardian — (project, security)   A project which grew out of the ARPA support for Multics and the sale of Multics systems to the US Air Force. The USAF wanted a system that could be used to handle more than one security classification of data at a time. They contracted with Honeywell and MITRE Corporation to figure out how to do this. Project Guardian led to the creation of the Access Isolation Mechanism, the forerunner of the B2 labeling and star property support in Multics. The DoD Orange Book was influenced by the experience in building secure systems gained in Project Guardian.
  • prolonged-action — sustained-release.
  • puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
  • radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
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