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15-letter words containing i, d, o, t, y

  • gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
  • geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • growth industry — an industry that is experiencing rapid growth
  • hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
  • holiday clothes — the clothes worn and bought for travelling on holiday, such as swimwear, skiwear, or clothes for hot or cold weather, etc
  • holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
  • holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
  • hybrid antibody — a synthetic antibody that is able to combine with two different antigens
  • hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
  • hydraulic motor — a motor that converts the kinetic or potential energy of a fluid into mechanical energy.
  • hydrodynamicist — a specialist in hydrodynamics.
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hydropathically — in a hydropathic manner; in a manner relating to hydropathy
  • hydrostatically — In a hydrostatic manner.
  • hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
  • hyperdemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
  • hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
  • hyperthyroidism — overactivity of the thyroid gland.
  • ichthyodorulite — a spiny plate located on the tail and back of some fish or similar vertebrates
  • ichthyodorylite — a fossilised fish-spine
  • identity theory — a form of materialism which holds mental states to be identical with certain states of the brain and so to have no separate existence, but regards this identity as contingent so that mentalistic and physicalistic language are not held to be synonymous
  • idiosyncratical — Alternative form of idiosyncratic.
  • imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
  • in line of duty — in the performance of authorized or prescribed military duty
  • in the old days — a long time ago
  • inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
  • indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
  • indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
  • indissolubility — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • intramyocardial — Into or within the myocardium.
  • labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
  • leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
  • learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
  • lepidopterology — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • library edition — an edition of a book prepared for library use, especially with a library binding.
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
  • liquidity ratio — the ratio of those assets that can easily be exchanged for money to the total assets of a bank or other financial institution
  • literary editor — someone who edits literature and books
  • loyalty islands — a group of coral islands in the S Pacific belonging to the French territory of New Caledonia. 761 sq. mi. (1970 sq. km).
  • lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
  • majority leader — the leader of the majority party in a legislative body, especially the party member who directs the activities of the majority party on the floor of either the Senate or the House of Representatives.
  • mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.
  • medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
  • methyl chloride — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Cl, used chiefly as a refrigerant, as a local anesthetic, and as a methylating agent in organic synthesis.
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