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16-letter words containing i, l, u, s, o

  • dimension lumber — building lumber cut to standard or specified sizes.
  • diodorus siculus — late 1st century b.c, Greek historian.
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • disequilibration — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • disorderly house — a house of prostitution; brothel.
  • disqualification — an act or instance of disqualifying.
  • distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
  • distributionally — In a distributional manner.
  • district council — the local ruling body of an urban or rural district.
  • divisional court — a high court in which at least two judges sit
  • do-it-yourselfer — an advocate or enthusiast of do-it-yourself
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • double solitaire — a game of solitaire for two persons, each player usually having a pack and layout but pooling foundations with the opponent.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
  • duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
  • dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
  • elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • electroacoustics — a branch of acoustics that deals with the conversion of sound into electricity and vice versa, as in a microphone or a speaker
  • electronic music — music: synthesized
  • episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
  • ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
  • exclusion clause — (in a contract) something that serves to limit liabilities
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
  • fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
  • flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
  • fluosilicic acid — an unstable acid, H 2 SiF 6 , known only in its colorless, poisonous, fuming aqueous solution or in the form of its salts: used chiefly as a wood preservative, a disinfectant, and as a hardening agent in the manufacture of ceramic ware, cement, and concrete.
  • folk linguistics — speculation and popular views about language.
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
  • four-dimensional — of a space having points, or a set having elements, which require four coordinates for their unique determination.
  • fourier analysis — the expression of any periodic function as a sum of sine and cosine functions, as in an electromagnetic wave function. Compare Fourier series.
  • francis of paula — Saint, 1416–1507, Italian monk: founder of the order of Minims.
  • fraunhofer lines — a set of dark lines appearing in the continuous emission spectrum of the sun. It is caused by the absorption of light of certain wavelengths coming from the hotter region of the sun by elements in the cooler outer atmosphere
  • fuel consumption — use of a material to generate power
  • fullness of time — the proper or destined time.
  • functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
  • functionlessness — The quality or state of being functionless.
  • furniture polish — product: shines wood
  • garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
  • gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
  • general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
  • girls' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of women
  • golden delicious — a bright yellow type of Delicious apple.
  • gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column
  • great soil group — according to a system of classification that originated in Russia, any of several broad groups of soils with common characteristics usually associated with particular climates and vegetation types.
  • health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
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