16-letter words containing l, e, d, s
- malicious damage — Malicious damage is damage caused on purpose to the property of another person.
- manganese nodule — a small irregular concretion found on deep ocean floors having high concentrations of certain metals, esp manganese
- masculine ending — a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
- mason-dixon line — the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, partly surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon between 1763 and 1767, popularly considered before the end of slavery as a line of demarcation between free and slave states.
- matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
- mayfield heights — a city in N Ohio, near Cleveland.
- medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
- medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
- medieval studies — a course of study based on the history of the Middle Ages
- medullary sheath — Botany. a narrow zone made up of the innermost layer of woody tissue immediately surrounding the pith in plants.
- medulloblastomas — Plural form of medulloblastoma.
- menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
- mercuric sulfide — a crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous compound, HgS, occurring as a coarse, black powder (black mercuric sulfide) or as a fine, bright-scarlet powder (red mercuric sulfide) used chiefly as a pigment and as a source of the free metal.
- metasilicic acid — the hypothetical acid H2SiO3
- michaelmas daisy — an aster.
- middelmannetjies — Plural form of middelmannetjie.
- middle latitudes — the latitude of the point that is midway between two parallels on the same side of the equator.
- middle stone age — the Mesolithic period.
- middle westerner — the region of the United States bounded on the W by the Rocky Mountains, on the S by the Ohio River and the S extremities of Missouri and Kansas, and on the E, variously, by the Allegheny Mountains, the E border of Ohio, or the E border of Illinois.
- miller's disease — osteofibrosis of horses due to low concentration of phosphorus in the blood caused by eating bran exclusively
- mineral deposits — amounts of minerals that occur naturally in particular areas
- modern languages — languages currently spoken
- modified-release — denoting a formulation of a medicinal drug taken orally that releases the active ingredients over several hours, in order to maintain a relatively constant plasma concentration of the drug
- monocotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the monocotyledons.
- most wanted list — an actual or supposed listing of the names of persons who are urgently being sought for a specific reason, as apprehension for an alleged crime.
- moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
- muddleheadedness — The state of being muddle-headed.
- multi-discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- 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.
- multidisciplined — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
- musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
- mustard-coloured — of a brownish-yellow colour
- natural disaster — meteorological or geological catastrophe
- no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
- nondurable goods — goods that remain usable for, or must be replaced within, a relatively short period of time, as food, apparel, or fabrics
- nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
- nusslein-volhard — Christiane [kris-tee-ah-nuh,, kris-tyah-] /ˌkrɪs tiˈɑ nə,, krɪsˈtyɑ-/ (Show IPA), born 1942, German biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
- oder-neisse line — the boundary between Poland and East Germany after World War II.
- off-the-shoulder — not covering the shoulder
- oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
- oligosaccharides — Plural form of oligosaccharide.
- on a world scale — in a way that involves the whole world
- on the sidelines — in the area along the sidelines
- one's salad days — If you refer to your salad days, you are referring to a period of your life when you were young and inexperienced.
- opposed-cylinder — (of an internal-combustion engine) having cylinders on opposite sides of the crankcase in the same plane
- otherworldliness — The quality of being otherworldly.
- padded shoulders — (on a garment) shoulders lined, stuffed, or filled out with soft material, esp in order to give them a higher or wider shape
- panel discussion — a formal discussion before an audience for which the topic, speakers, etc., have been selected in advance.
- parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire