15-letter words containing l, a, d, e, r, i
- leonid andreyev — Leonid Nikolaevich [lee-uh-nid nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˈli ə nɪd ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1919, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
- lesser dionysia — (in ancient Attica) the wine feasts, processions, and dramatic performances composing one of the festivals honoring Dionysus, held in the middle of December.
- liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
- liberal studies — a supplementary arts course for those specializing in scientific, technical, or professional studies
- library edition — an edition of a book prepared for library use, especially with a library binding.
- like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
- limited partner — special partner.
- linear collider — a particle accelerator in which two beams of particles are made to collide
- linear manifold — subspace (def 2b).
- linear ordering — an ordering that is reflexive, antisymmetric, transitive, and connected, as less than or equal to on the involved integers
- literary device — technique used in writing
- literary editor — someone who edits literature and books
- little colorado — a river flowing NW from E Arizona to the E edge of the Grand Canyon, where it flows into the Colorado River. 315 miles (507 km) long.
- livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
- logical address — virtual address
- lord lieutenant — British. the title of various high officials holding authority deputed from a sovereign.
- lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
- louis d'orleans — Louis Philippe Joseph [lwee fee-leep zhaw-zef] /lwi fiˈlip ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), Duc (Philippe Égalité) 1747–93, French political leader.
- lower east side — a section in the borough of Manhattan, New York: noted for its immigrant culture.
- macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
- maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
- mail order firm — a company that sells goods by mail order
- mailing address — postal or delivery address
- 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.
- malappropriated — misused or mishandled
- marie byrd land — former name of Byrd Land.
- mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- master cylinder — the hydraulic pump of an automotive braking system that contains a cylinder and one or two pistons, is actuated by the brake pedal, and supplies hydraulic fluid under pressure to the brakes at each wheel.
- medal for merit — a medal awarded by the U.S. to a civilian for distinguished service to the country: discontinued after World War II.
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- medical officer — a doctor of medicine who serves in the armed forces in a medical capacity
- medical records — written information about a person's health during their life to date
- medical tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
- medieval hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from the 6th to the 13th centuries a.d.
- mental disorder — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
- meridian circle — a transit instrument provided with a graduated vertical scale, used to measure the declinations of heavenly bodies and to determine the time of meridian transits.
- michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
- middle american — average middle-class Americans as a group, as distinguished from the rich or poor or the politically extreme.
- mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
- minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
- minority leader — the party member who directs the activities of the minority party on the floor of a legislative body, as of the U.S. Congress.
- missile address — ICBM address
- mollier diagram — a graph showing the enthalpy of a substance as a function of its entropy when some physical property of the substance, as temperature or pressure, is kept at a specified constant value.
- moral turpitude — conduct that is regarded as immoral.
- morbidity table — A morbidity table is a statistical table that shows the proportion of people that are expected to become sick or injured at each age.
- muslim calendar — the lunar calendar used by Muslims and reckoned from a.d. 622: the calendar year consists of 354 days and contains 12 months: Moharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Shaban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu ʾl-Qaʿda, and Dhu ʾl-hijjah. In leap years the month Dhu ʾl-hijjah contains one extra day.
- netmarq limited — A small technical consultancy specialising in the testing of network components. They do performance tests of network interface cards, routers, hubs, file servers, etc. To reflect the marketplace, most tests are carried out in a Novell NetWare environment, although they can equally well use Lan server, Banyan Vines, NT Advanced Server, IBM PC Support. They claim to be Europe's leading such test lab and compete with US Labs such as LanQuest and NSTL. They also do some network design, installation, support, and troubleshooting. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- neutral density — black, white, or a shade of grey; a colourless tone
- nevado del ruiz — a volcano in W central Colombia, in the Andes: eruption 1985. 17,720 feet (5401 meters).