16-letter words containing l, i, t, e, r, y
- daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
- deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
- deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
- delayed reaction — response after an interval
- demolition derby — a competition in which contestants drive old cars into each other until there is only one car left running
- depolymerisation — (chemistry) alternative spelling of depolymerization.
- depolymerization — (chemistry) The decomposition of a polymer into smaller fragments.
- dermatologically — In a dermatological way.
- destroying angel — a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
- diacetylmorphine — heroin.
- dictionary flame — [Usenet] An attempt to sidetrack a debate away from issues by insisting on meanings for key terms that presuppose a desired conclusion or smuggle in an implicit premise. A common tactic of people who prefer argument over definitions to disputes about reality. Compare spelling flame.
- diethyl carbinol — a colorless, liquid isomer of amyl alcohol, (CH3CH2)2CHOH, used in drugs and as a solvent
- dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
- diphosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with two units of phosphoric acid.
- display terminal — Visual Display Unit
- diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
- do-it-yourselfer — an advocate or enthusiast of do-it-yourself
- documentary film — factual, informative film
- dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
- dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
- early retirement — retirement before established age
- earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
- east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- elective surgery — when someone chooses to have an operation which is not absolutely medically necessary
- electrochemistry — The branch of chemistry that deals with the relations between electrical and chemical phenomena.
- electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
- electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
- electrophilicity — (chemistry, uncountable) the condition of being electrophilic.
- electrosynthesis — synthesis produced by means of an electric current
- elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
- epigrammatically — In a manner suggesting of an epigram.
- erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
- ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
- ethnocentrically — In an ethnocentric way.
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- exterritoriality — Extraterritoriality.
- federalist party — a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.
- ferroelectricity — (physics) The electric polarization of a substance (spontaneous presence of a dipole moment) that is analagous to ferromagnetism.
- fertility clinic — a place at which a couple who are unable to conceive may receive medical advice and treatments to help them to have a child
- fertility factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- fertility symbol — an object, esp a phallic symbol, used in fertility-cult ceremonies to symbolize regeneration
- flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
- flibbertigibbety — Like a flibbertigibbet; flighty; scatterbrained.
- formylmethionine — Alternative spelling of formyl methionine.
- friendly society — law: mutual group providing benefits
- galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
- generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
- generalizability — The quality of being generalizable.
- granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
- health authority — a government agency that is responsible for NHS care in a particular area