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15-letter words containing l, i, n, d, s

  • mental disorder — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
  • mid-lent sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • middle distance — Also called middle ground, middle plane. Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.
  • middle-distance — Also called middle ground, middle plane. Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.
  • miles and miles — a long distance
  • milk of almonds — almond milk.
  • minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
  • minkowski world — a four-dimensional space in which the fourth coordinate is time and in which a single event is represented as a point.
  • mitotic spindle — spindle (def 11).
  • mononucleotides — Plural form of mononucleotide.
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • multidiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
  • multidivisional — Of or pertaining to more than one division.
  • multitudinously — In a multitudinous way.
  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • muslim calendar — the lunar calendar used by Muslims and reckoned from a.d. 622: the calendar year consists of 354 days and contains 12 months: Moharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Shaban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu ʾl-Qaʿda, and Dhu ʾl-hijjah. In leap years the month Dhu ʾl-hijjah contains one extra day.
  • neutral density — black, white, or a shade of grey; a colourless tone
  • nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
  • nicobar islands — a group of 19 islands in the Indian Ocean, south of the Andaman Islands, with which they form a territory of India. Area: 1645 sq km (635 sq miles)
  • night blindness — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
  • nil desperandum — never despair
  • nitriding steel — any steel suitable for casehardening by nitriding.
  • non-adversarial — a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
  • non-residential — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
  • nonconsolidated — (financial) Including the financial data of only the parent company.
  • nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
  • nonhospitalized — not hospitalized
  • noninsecticidal — absent or free of insecticide
  • nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
  • obsidional coin — siege piece.
  • oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
  • old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
  • oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
  • one-dimensional — having one dimension only.
  • operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
  • opposition hold — a particular way of holding rock in mountain-climbing
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • pacific islands — a U.S. trust territory in the Pacific Ocean, comprising the Mariana, Marshall, and Caroline Islands: approved by the United Nations 1947; since 1976 constituents of the trusteeship have established or moved toward self-government. 717 sq. mi. (1857 sq. km).
  • paid-in surplus — surplus paid in by purchasers of stock certificates sold at a premium.
  • palais de danse — a dance hall
  • paracel islands — a group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the N South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims by China and Vietnam
  • pay-and-display — denoting a car-parking system in which a motorist buys a permit to park for a specified period from a coin-operated machine and displays the permit on or near the windscreen of his or her car so that it can be seen by a parking attendant
  • pedestrian mall — A pedestrian mall is the same as a pedestrian precinct.
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
  • phoenix islands — a group of eight coral islands in the central Pacific: administratively part of Kiribati. Area: 28 sq km (11 sq miles). The islands and surrounding waters form the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, the world's largest marine protected area. Area: 410 500 sq km (158 500 sq miles)
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • pitcairn island — a small British island in the S Pacific, SE of Tuamotu Archipelago: settled 1790 by mutineers of the Bounty. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
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