16-letter words containing l, y, e
- dimethylglyoxime — (organic compound) The oxime 2,3-butanedione dioxime that is used as a reagent in the analysis of nickel and palladium.
- dimly-remembered — recalled in an unclear or vague way
- diphosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with two units of phosphoric acid.
- disorderly house — a house of prostitution; brothel.
- 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
- dodecyl aldehyde — lauric aldehyde.
- domiciliary care — services, such as meals-on-wheels, health visiting, and home help, provided by a welfare agency for people in their own homes
- dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
- double indemnity — a clause in a life-insurance or accident-insurance policy providing for payment of twice the face value of the policy in the event of accidental death.
- double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
- double occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as in a hotel, for two persons sharing the same room: The rate is $35 per person, double occupancy, or $65, single occupancy.
- down memory lane — If you say that someone is taking a walk or trip down memory lane, you mean that they are talking, writing, or thinking about something that happened to them a long time ago.
- down one's alley — a passage, as through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the street to backyards, garages, etc.
- dry-cell battery — a dry battery
- dual carriageway — divided highway.
- dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
- duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
- dyed-in-the-wool — through and through; complete: a dyed-in-the-wool reformer.
- dynamic language — (language) (Dylan) A simple object-oriented Lisp dialect, most closely resembling CLOS and Scheme, developed by Advanced Technology Group East at Apple Computer. See also Marlais.
- early retirement — retirement before established age
- earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
- east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- ebony spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium platyneuron, of woody areas of North America, having ladderlike leaves and shiny, dark brown stems.
- ecclesiastically — of or relating to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.
- eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
- economic geology — the branch of geology dealing with the location and exploitation of industrial materials obtained from the earth.
- economy of scale — a fall in average costs resulting from an increase in the scale of production
- 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
- electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
- electromyography — The recording of the electrical activity of muscle tissue, or its representation as a visual display or audible signal, using electrodes attached to the skin or inserted into the muscle.
- 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
- encyclopedically — In an encyclopedic way; in the manner of an encyclopedia.
- endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
- enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.
- epigrammatically — In a manner suggesting of an epigram.
- erlenmeyer flask — conical container used in laboratory
- erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
- eschatologically — In an eschatological manner.
- 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).
- ethnomethodology — A method of sociological analysis that examines how individuals use everyday conversation and gestures to construct a common-sense view of the world.