16-letter words containing l, a, u, n, d, e
- intellectualised — Simple past tense and past participle of intellectualise.
- intellectualized — Simple past tense and past participle of intellectualize.
- internal auditor — a person who carries out an internal audit
- knuckle sandwich — a punch in the mouth with a clenched fist.
- labrador current — a cold ocean current flowing southwards off the coast of Labrador and meeting the warm Gulf Stream, causing dense fogs off the coast of Newfoundland
- laurel and hardy — a team of US film comedians, Stan Laurel, 1890–1965, born in Britain, the thin one, and his partner, Oliver Hardy, 1892–1957, the fat one
- laurentides park — a national park in SE Canada, in Quebec province between the St. Lawrence and Lake St. John.
- leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
- leaps and bounds — You can use in leaps and bounds or by leaps and bounds to emphasize that someone or something is improving or increasing quickly and greatly.
- lenticular cloud — a very smooth, round or oval, lens-shaped cloud that is often seen, singly or stacked in groups, near a mountain ridge.
- line of latitude — an imaginary line on a globe, map, etc, indicating latitude
- lizard peninsula — a promontory in SW England, in SW Cornwall: the southernmost point in Great Britain
- lucas van leyden — (Lucas Hugensz) 1494–1533, Dutch painter and engraver.
- 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.
- manganese nodule — a small irregular concretion found on deep ocean floors having high concentrations of certain metals, esp manganese
- many-plumed moth — a moth of the species, Alucita hexadactyla
- masculine ending — a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
- menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
- miniature poodle — a breed of poodle, bred to be much smaller than standard poodles
- modern languages — languages currently spoken
- modular language — (language) (Modula) Wirth's 1977 predecessor of Modula-2. The original Modula was, more oriented toward concurrent programming, but otherwise quite similar.
- money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
- moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
- muddleheadedness — The state of being muddle-headed.
- multidimensional — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
- munchen-gladbach — former name of Mönchengladbach.
- 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.
- natural disaster — meteorological or geological catastrophe
- nature-identical — manufactured to be identical to a natural substance
- nevado de toluca — a volcano in central Mexico, in Mexico state near Toluca: crater partly filled by a lake. Height: 4577 m (15 017 ft)
- no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
- nondurable goods — goods that remain usable for, or must be replaced within, a relatively short period of time, as food, apparel, or fabrics
- north lauderdale — a city in SE Florida.
- nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
- nuclear medicine — diagnostic and therapeutic medical techniques using radionuclides or radioisotopes.
- nusslein-volhard — Christiane [kris-tee-ah-nuh,, kris-tyah-] /ˌkrɪs tiˈɑ nə,, krɪsˈtyɑ-/ (Show IPA), born 1942, German biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
- ordinary jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
- painted trillium — a North American trillium, Trillium undulatum, having white flowers streaked with pink or purple.
- panel discussion — a formal discussion before an audience for which the topic, speakers, etc., have been selected in advance.
- pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium
- perpendicularity — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- phase modulation — radio transmission in which the carrier wave is modulated by changing its phase to transmit the amplitude and pitch of the signal.
- pleased as punch — the chief male character in a Punch-and-Judy show.
- pseudocopulation — pollination of plants, esp orchids, by male insects while attempting to mate with flowers that resemble the female insect
- 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.
- pulse modulation — a type of modulation in which a train of pulses is used as the carrier wave, one or more of its parameters, such as amplitude, being modulated or modified in order to carry information