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16-letter words containing h, i, d, a, l

  • 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.
  • cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • diplomatic pouch — a sealed mailbag containing diplomatic correspondence that is sent free of inspection between a foreign office and its diplomatic or consular post abroad or from one such post to another.
  • direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
  • discographically — In terms of discography.
  • disestablishment — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
  • dishonorableness — The property of being dishonorable.
  • dolichocephalism — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
  • dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
  • drainage channel — a channel along which drained water flows away
  • 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.
  • ducktail-haircut — DA.
  • earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
  • 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.
  • fantail goldfish — an artificially bred, hardy variety of goldfish, usually oval-shaped and deep orange or calico, with a deeply cleft, four-lobed tail held in line with the body.
  • farquhar islands — an island group in the Indian Ocean: administratively part of the Seychelles
  • 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.
  • flathead catfish — a yellow and brown catfish, Pylodictus olivaris, common in the central U.S., having a flattened head and a projecting lower jaw.
  • flight attendant — an airline employee who serves meals, attends to passengers' comfort, etc., during a flight.
  • flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
  • floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
  • fool around with — have casual sex
  • gabriel, richard — Richard Gabriel
  • garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • glendale heights — a city in NE Illinois.
  • great-grandchild — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
  • gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
  • haemodynamically — from a hemodynamic point of view
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