16-letter words containing h, e, a, d, l
- chlordiazepoxide — a chemical compound used as a tranquillizer and muscle relaxant and in the treatment of delirium tremens. Formula: C16H14ClN3O
- chlorinated lime — bleaching powder.
- chlorogenic acid — a colorless crystalline acid, C 16 H 18 O 9 , that is important in plant metabolism and is purportedly responsible for the browning or blackening of cut apples, potatoes, and other fruits and vegetables.
- cigarette holder — A cigarette holder is a narrow tube that you can put a cigarette into in order to hold it while you smoke it.
- clearsightedness — The property of being clearsighted.
- close by/at hand — Something that is close by or close at hand is near to you.
- cluster headache — a type of recurrent headache characterized by sudden onset and intense pain on one side of the face near the eye
- commonwealth day — the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth, May 24, celebrated (now on the second Monday in March) as a holiday in many parts of the Commonwealth
- cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
- d-glyceraldehyde — an isomer of glyceraldehyde in which the OH group is on the right side of the asymmetric carbon atom.
- daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
- dead-smooth file — the smoothest grade of file commonly used
- dealcoholization — to remove some or all of the alcohol from (a drink).
- dear john letter — a letter from someone (esp to a man) breaking off a love affair
- dental hygienist — a dentist's assistant skilled in dental hygiene
- deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
- depart this life — to die
- dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
- diacetylmorphine — heroin.
- dialysis machine — device: kidney treatment
- diesel-hydraulic — a locomotive driven by a diesel engine through hydraulic transmission and torque converters
- diethyl carbinol — a colorless, liquid isomer of amyl alcohol, (CH3CH2)2CHOH, used in drugs and as a solvent
- diethyltoluamide — a liquid, C 12 H 17 NO, used as an insect repellent and resin solvent.
- digital research — (company) The company which developed CP/M, the operating system used on many of the first generation 8-bit microprocessor-based personal computers. Digital Research also produced DR-DOS. Address: Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
- dimethyl sulfate — a colorless or yellow, slightly water-soluble, poisonous liquid, (CH 3) 2 SO 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
- diphosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with two units of phosphoric acid.
- direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
- disestablishment — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
- dishonorableness — The property of being dishonorable.
- dodecyl aldehyde — lauric aldehyde.
- dolichocephalism — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
- dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
- down at the heel — with the heels of one's shoes in need of repair
- drainage channel — a channel along which drained water flows away
- draught excluder — a device (such as a strip of wood, or a long cylindrical cushion) placed at the bottom of a door to keep out draughts
- draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
- drop a bombshell — If someone drops a bombshell, they give you a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
- dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
- duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
- earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
- edward the elder — died 924 ad, king of England (899–924), son of Alfred the Great
- electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
- english canadian — a Canadian citizen whose first language is English, esp one of English descent
- ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
- exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
- false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
- false dragonhead — a North American plant, Physostegia virginiana, of the mint family, having a spike of tubular, two-lipped, pink or white flowers.
- fast of gedaliah — Tzom Gedaliah.
- fat-tailed sheep — one of a class of sheep with much fat along the sides of the tail bones, raised for their meat and widely distributed in southeast Europe, northern Africa, and Asia.