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16-letter words containing i, n, d, u, c, e

  • indecent assault — a sexual offense, other than rape, committed by one person against another.
  • indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
  • indian liquorice — a woody leguminous climbing plant, Abrus precatorius, native to tropical Asia and naturalized elsewhere, having scarlet black-spotted poisonous seeds, used as beads, and roots used as a substitute for liquorice
  • induced topology — a topology of a subset of a topological space, obtained by intersecting the subset with every open set in the topology of the space.
  • induction course — training for new job
  • induction stroke — The induction stroke is the stroke of the piston in an internal combustion engine in which working fluid is drawn into the cylinder.
  • infant education — (in England and Wales) education provided for children at infant schools
  • infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
  • intellectualised — Simple past tense and past participle of intellectualise.
  • intellectualized — Simple past tense and past participle of intellectualize.
  • judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • kentucky windage — a method of correcting for windage, gravity, etc., by aiming a weapon to one side of the target instead of by adjusting the sights.
  • kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
  • knuckle sandwich — a punch in the mouth with a clenched fist.
  • lenticular cloud — a very smooth, round or oval, lens-shaped cloud that is often seen, singly or stacked in groups, near a mountain ridge.
  • machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
  • magellanic cloud — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
  • masculine ending — a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
  • mass destruction — devastation on a large scale
  • measuring device — gauge
  • medium frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 kilohertz. Abbreviation: MF.
  • moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
  • moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
  • multi-discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
  • multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
  • multidisciplined — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
  • mutual impedance — the ratio of the potential difference between either of two pairs of terminals to the current applied at the other pair of terminals when the circuit is open.
  • nature-identical — manufactured to be identical to a natural substance
  • no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
  • non-reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • non-reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
  • non-reproductive — serving to reproduce.
  • nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
  • nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
  • nuclear medicine — diagnostic and therapeutic medical techniques using radionuclides or radioisotopes.
  • oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
  • oneida community — a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.
  • order in council — (in Britain and various other Commonwealth countries) a decree of the Cabinet, usually made under the authority of a statute: in theory a decree of the sovereign and Privy Council
  • paediatric nurse — a nurse who specializes in the care of children
  • panel discussion — a formal discussion before an audience for which the topic, speakers, etc., have been selected in advance.
  • percussion drill — a drill that is operated by percussion
  • perpendicularity — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
  • picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
  • process industry — business of treating raw materials
  • 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.
  • pseudo-scientist — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
  • pseudocopulation — pollination of plants, esp orchids, by male insects while attempting to mate with flowers that resemble the female insect
  • pseudoscientific — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
  • publication date — the date on which a book or periodical is or is planned to be published.
  • puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
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