16-letter words containing l, e, t, d
- flight attendant — an airline employee who serves meals, attends to passengers' comfort, etc., during a flight.
- floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
- follow the crowd — copy what others are doing
- food intolerance — an intolerance of a specific type of food, causing an adverse reaction
- foot fault judge — on official on the baseline who is responsible for calling foot faults
- forked lightning — Forked lightning is lightning that divides into two or more parts near the ground.
- four-letter word — any of a number of short words, usually of four letters, considered offensive or vulgar because of their reference to excrement or sex.
- frederic mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
- freeboard length — the length of a vessel, measured on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to some part of the stern, usually the after side of the rudderpost.
- friction welding — a method of welding thermoplastics or metals by the heat generated by rubbing the members to be joined against each other under pressure.
- friendly society — law: mutual group providing benefits
- front-end loader — a loader having a shovel or bucket at the end of an articulated arm located at the front of the vehicle.
- full steam ahead — If something such as a plan or a project goes full steam ahead, it progresses quickly.
- fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
- fundamental star — one of a number of stars with positions that have been determined accurately and that are used as reference stars for the determination of positions of other celestial objects.
- fundamental unit — one of a set of unrelated units that form the basis of a system of units. For example, the metre, kilogram, and second are fundamental units of the SI system
- fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
- funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
- garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- gelatin dynamite — a high explosive consisting of a gelatinized mass of nitroglycerin with cellulose nitrate added.
- gender selection — choosing the sex of a baby
- gentleman friend — a man with whom a woman is romantically involved; suitor.
- get the lead out — Chemistry. a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-gray metal, sometimes found in its natural state but usually combined as a sulfide, especially in galena. Symbol: Pb; atomic weight: 207.19; atomic number: 82; specific gravity: 11.34 at 20°C.
- gilding the lily — If you say that someone is gilding the lily, you mean that they are spoiling something that is already beautiful or perfect by trying to improve it or by praising it too highly.
- gilt-edged stock — government stock on which interest payments will certainly be met and that will certainly be repaid at par on the due date
- glendale heights — a city in NE Illinois.
- gold certificate — a former U.S. paper currency issued by the federal government for circulation from 1865 to 1933, equal to and redeemable for gold to a stated value.
- gold star mother — an American woman whose son or daughter has died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
- golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
- golden rain tree — an ornamental tree, Koelreuteria paniculata, of the soapberry family, native to China and adjacent areas, having pinnate leaves, large clusters of fragrant yellow flowers, and inflated pods containing black seeds used as beads.
- golden retriever — one of an English breed of retrievers having a thick, flat or wavy, golden coat.
- goldsmith beetle — a brilliant golden scarabaeid beetle, Cetonia aurata, of Europe.
- governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
- granulated paper — paper with a roughened surface
- granulated sugar — a coarsely ground white sugar, widely used as a sweetener.
- great horned owl — a large, brown-speckled owl, Bubo virginianus, common in the Western Hemisphere, having prominent ear tufts.
- great-grandchild — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
- great-granduncle — an uncle of one's grandfather or grandmother.
- greater sand eel — a large species of sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus
- greater-doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
- grid declination — the angular difference between true north and grid north on a map
- grounded neutral — Grounded neutral is the situation in which the neutral wire of an electrical supply system is connected to ground.
- hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
- health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
- health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
- heavy with child — pregnant
- hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
- heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
- high-speed steel — an especially hard, heat-resistant steel for use in lathe tools and for other applications involving high friction and wear.
- holder condition — Lipschitz condition.