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16-letter words containing l, o, r, d, f

  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • modified-release — denoting a formulation of a medicinal drug taken orally that releases the active ingredients over several hours, in order to maintain a relatively constant plasma concentration of the drug
  • no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
  • north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
  • north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • off-road vehicle — An off-road vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
  • off-the-shoulder — not covering the shoulder
  • old north french — the dialect of Old French spoken in northern France. Abbreviation: ONF.
  • once and for all — former; having at one time been: the once and future king.
  • outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
  • paraformaldehyde — a white, crystalline polymer of formaldehyde, (HCOH) n , from which it is obtained by evaporation of the aqueous solution: used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
  • pearls of wisdom — good advice, wise words
  • perforated ulcer — an ulcer that bursts through the stomach wall and leaks food and gastric juices into the abdominal cavity
  • pribilof islands — a group of islands in the Bering Sea, off SW Alaska, belonging to the US: the breeding ground of the northern fur seal. Area: about 168 sq km (65 sq miles)
  • pride oneself on — to be proud of
  • red flour beetle — a reddish-brown flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, that feeds on stored grain, dried fruit, etc.
  • reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
  • robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
  • rule of the road — any of the regulations concerning the safe handling of vessels under way with respect to one another, imposed by a government on ships in its own waters or upon its own ships on the high seas.
  • self-degradation — the act of degrading.
  • self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-description — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
  • self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
  • self-preoccupied — preoccupied by one's own concerns
  • self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • sliding friction — frictional resistance to relative movement of surfaces on loaded contact
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • tierra del fuego — a group of islands at the S tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: jointly owned by Argentina and Chile; boundary disputed. 27,476 sq. mi. (71,165 sq. km).
  • to hold the fort — If you hold the fort for someone, or, in American English, if you hold down the fort, you look after things for them while they are somewhere else or are busy doing something else.
  • to stand or fall — If an idea, claim, or attempt stands or falls on something, its truth or success depends on that thing.
  • transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
  • 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.
  • way of the world — a comedy of manners (1700) by William Congreve.
  • william bradford — Gamaliel, 1863–1932, U.S. biographer and novelist.
  • windchill factor — an estimated measurement of the cooling effect of air and wind, esp. when applied to the loss of body heat from exposed skin; chill factor
  • windfall profits — Windfall profits are excessive profits with a non-business cause such as a natural disaster.
  • 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
  • world federalism — federalism on a worldwide level.
  • world federalist — a promoter or supporter of world federalism.
  • wrongful trading — the act of allowing a company to continue trading when its insolvency is inevitable
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