15-letter words containing l, i, d, c, e
- oligodendrocyte — A glial cell similar to an astrocyte but with fewer protuberances, concerned with the production of myelin in the central nervous system.
- oligonucleotide — a chain of a few nucleotides.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- omnidirectional — sending or receiving signals in all directions: an omnidirectional microphone.
- orderly officer — Military. officer of the day, as in the British army or, formerly, in the U.S. Army.
- orthopaedically — in an orthopaedic manner
- out in the cold — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
- outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
- over-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
- over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
- overcapitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of overcapitalize.
- overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
- oxygen cylinder — a metal cylinder containing oxygen under pressure
- package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
- paracel islands — a group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the N South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims by China and Vietnam
- pectoral girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the forelimbs.
- pelargonic acid — a colorless, oily, water-immiscible liquid, C 9 H 1 8 O 2 , occurring as an ester in a volatile oil in species of pelargonium: used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of lacquers and plastics.
- perchloric acid — a colorless, syrupy hygroscopic liquid, HClO 4 , an acid of chlorine containing one more oxygen atom than chloric acid: used chiefly as a reagent in analytical chemistry.
- perpendicularly — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
- pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
- point d'alencon — Alençon lace (def 1).
- polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
- pre-delinquency — failure in or neglect of duty or obligation; dereliction; default: delinquency in payment of dues.
- predicate logic — (logic) (Or "predicate calculus") An extension of propositional logic with separate symbols for predicates, subjects, and quantifiers. For example, where propositional logic might assign a single symbol P to the proposition "All men are mortal", predicate logic can define the predicate M(x) which asserts that the subject, x, is mortal and bind x with the universal quantifier ("For all"): All x . M(x) Higher-order predicate logic allows predicates to be the subjects of other predicates.
- prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
- president-elect — a president after election but before induction into office.
- prince's island — former name of Príncipe.
- principal ideal — the smallest ideal containing a given element in a ring; an ideal in a ring with a multiplicative identity, obtained by multiplying each element of the ring by one specified element.
- production line — an arrangement of machines or sequence of operations involved with a single manufacturing operation or production process. Compare assembly line, line1 (def 29).
- pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
- pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- pseudo-suicidal — pertaining to, involving, or suggesting suicide.
- psychedelically — of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.
- psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
- public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
- public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
- public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
- radial velocity — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
- radio telescope — a system consisting of an antenna, either parabolic or dipolar, used to gather radio waves emitted by celestial sources and bring them to a receiver placed in the focus.
- radiochemically — by radiochemical means or methods; from a radiochemical perspective
- radiometrically — using a radiometric method, in terms of radiometry
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- radiotelemetric — of or relating to radiotelemetry
- reckless driver — sb who drives dangerously
- recoil-operated — employing the recoil force of an explosive projectile to prepare the firing mechanism for the next shot.
- reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
- recording angel — an angel who supposedly keeps a record of every person's good and bad acts
- redfin pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).