16-letter words containing l, e, t, d
- twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
- ultracrepidarian — noting or pertaining to a person who criticizes, judges, or gives advice outside the area of his or her expertise: The play provides a classic, simplistic portrayal of an ultracrepidarian mother-in-law.
- uncoincidentally — happening by or resulting from coincidence; by chance: a coincidental meeting.
- uncollateralized — lacking or needing no collateral: uncollateralized loans.
- uncontradictable — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
- undenominational — free from religious sects or denominationalism; not limited or belonging to any particular religious group or groups.
- under one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- under the plough — If an area of land is under the plough, it is used for growing crops. If land is brought or put under the plough, it is ploughed for the first time and is then used for growing crops.
- under-employment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- under-modulation — to reproduce (a sound or signal) at below the optimal output level in a recording or broadcasting system, causing it to be distorted.
- undercapitalized — having insufficient capital for the efficient operation of a commercial enterprise
- underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
- underutilization — to fail to utilize fully: to underutilize natural resources.
- undifferentiable — capable of being differentiated.
- unissued capital — authorized capital that has not yet been issued as shares
- unparticularized — to make particular.
- unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- unter den linden — the main street of Berlin, extending to the Brandenburg Gate
- ununderstandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- valet de chambre — valet (def 1).
- vegetable garden — allotment
- verbal adjective — an adjective derived from a verb, as, in English, smiling in smiling eyes, or, in Greek, batós “going,” “moving,” derived from baínen “to go,” “to move.”.
- visual magnitude — Astronomy. magnitude (def 5a).
- visual-magnitude — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
- volatility index — beta (def 6).
- walking delegate — (formerly) an official appointed by a trade union to go from place to place to investigate working conditions, to ascertain whether union contracts were being fulfilled, and, sometimes, to negotiate contracts between employers and the union.
- walking distance — distance that can easily be walked
- way of the world — a comedy of manners (1700) by William Congreve.
- well conditioned — existing under or subject to conditions.
- well-appreciated — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- well-articulated — made clear or distinct: articulated sounds.
- well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- well-conditioned — existing under or subject to conditions.
- well-constructed — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
- well-established — permanently founded; settled; firmly set: a well-established business; a well-established habit.
- well-illustrated — containing pictures, drawings, and other illustrations: an illustrated book.
- well-intentioned — well-meaning.
- well-ordered set — a totally ordered set in which every nonempty subset has a smallest element with the property that there is no element in the subset less than this smallest element.
- well-represented — having good or sufficient representation
- well-upholstered — (of a person) fat
- west springfield — a city in SW Massachusetts, near Springfield.
- white blood cell — any of various nearly colorless cells of the immune system that circulate mainly in the blood and lymph and participate in reactions to invading microorganisms or foreign particles, comprising the B cells, T cells, macrophages, monocytes, and granulocytes.
- white sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
- whited sepulcher — an evil person who feigns goodness; hypocrite. Matt. 23:27.
- whited sepulchre — hypocrite
- wholeheartedness — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- with clean hands — innocently
- wolfenden report — a study produced in 1957 by the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution in Britain, which recommended that homosexual relations between consenting adults be legalized
- woodland culture — a long pre-Columbian tradition characterized by the corded pottery of a hunting and later agricultural people of the eastern U.S. noted for the construction of burial mounds and other structures and dating from c1000 b.c. to a.d. 1700.
- world exposition — world's fair.