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16-letter words containing m, e, d, i

  • bed-sitting room — a combined bedroom and sitting room serving as a one-room apartment
  • behind the times — You can use the times to refer to the present time and to modern fashions, tastes, and developments. For example, if you say that someone keeps up with the times, you mean they are fashionable or aware of modern developments. If you say they are behind the times, you mean they are unfashionable or not aware of them.
  • bermuda triangle — an area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Florida where ships and aeroplanes are alleged to have disappeared mysteriously
  • biometric device — biometrics
  • bird of ill omen — a person who brings bad news.
  • bird's-eye maple — a cut of sugar maple wood used especially for veneers, having a wavy grain with many dark, circular markings.
  • bit-mapped image — a computer image that is held in memory as a series of colored dots in a grid, each dot represented by one or more bits.
  • blind man's rule — a carpenter's rule having large numbers to permit its reading in dim light.
  • blind salamander — any of several North American salamanders, especially of the genera Typhlotriton, Typhlomolge, and Haideotriton, that inhabit underground streams or deep wells and have undeveloped eyes and scant pigmentation.
  • blue mockingbird — any of several gray, black, and white songbirds of the genus Mimus, especially M. polyglottos, of the U.S. and Mexico, noted for their ability to mimic the songs of other birds.
  • bonhomme richard — the flagship of John Paul Jones.
  • bordeaux mixture — a fungicide consisting of a solution of equal quantities of copper sulphate and quicklime
  • bornholm disease — an epidemic virus infection characterized by pain round the base of the chest
  • breeding plumage — the plumage assumed by a male bird during the courtship period, especially in those species that are more colorful at this period.
  • budgie smugglers — men's close-fitting swimming trunks
  • cadmium sulphide — an orange or yellow insoluble solid used as a pigment in paints, etc (cadmium yellow). Formula: CdS
  • calcium chloride — a white deliquescent salt occurring naturally in seawater and used in the de-icing of roads and as a drying agent. Formula: CaCl2
  • calcium fluoride — a white, crystalline compound, CaF 2 , insoluble in water, occurring in nature as the mineral fluorite: used as a flux in metallurgy and as a decay preventive in dentifrices.
  • canadian hemlock — eastern hemlock.
  • canine distemper — distemper1 (def 1a).
  • capital employed — the money used by a business for buying land, buildings, equipment etc
  • cardinal numbers — Also called cardinal numeral. any of the numbers that express amount, as one, two, three, etc. (distinguished from ordinal number).
  • cardiotachometer — a device for counting heartbeats, usually displaying the number of beats per minute
  • cecil b de mille — Cecil B(lount) [bluhnt] /blʌnt/ (Show IPA), 1881–1959, U.S. motion-picture producer and director (uncle of Agnes de Mille).
  • charmed particle — See at charmed (def 2).
  • chinese medicine — a traditional system of medical treatment based on the principles of Yin and Yang, involving such treatments as acupuncture and the use of a range of drugs derived from animal and vegetable sources
  • chloride of lime — a white powder with the approximate formula CaOCl2, obtained by treating slaked lime with chlorine and used for disinfecting and bleaching
  • chlorinated lime — bleaching powder.
  • christmas dinner — the main meal on Christmas day, eaten any time in the afternoon or evening
  • chromic chloride — a violet, crystalline compound, CrCl 3 , occurring in both water-soluble and water-insoluble forms, or a green or violet, water-soluble deliquescent compound, CrCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O: used chiefly as a mordant, in chrome-steel plating, and in the synthesis of chromium salts.
  • chromic fluoride — a green, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, CrF 3 ⋅4H 2 O or CrF 3 ⋅9H 2 O: used chiefly in printing and dyeing woolens.
  • chromium dioxide — a chemical compound used as a magnetic coating on cassette tapes; chromium(IV) oxide. Formula: CrO2
  • circumstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumstantiate.
  • clitoridectomies — Plural form of clitoridectomy.
  • clootie dumpling — a boiled suet pudding containing dried fruits
  • closed community — a plant community that does not allow for further colonization, all the available niches being occupied
  • co-determination — a system of industrial management in which workers share responsibility for the operation of a company, as through elected representation on a corporate supervisory board
  • combined honours — (in British education) a degree course that includes more than one subject
  • come and get it! — the meal is ready!
  • come from behind — sport: win from a disadvantaged position
  • command guidance — a method of controlling a missile during flight by transmitting information to it
  • common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • companion ladder — a ladder that allows sailors to move up and down between the decks of the ship
  • competitive edge — business: superiority
  • compressed video — video compression
  • computer studies — a course of study devoted to using and programming computers
  • confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
  • conical pendulum — a clock pendulum oscillating in a circle rather than in a straight line.
  • consumption weed — groundsel tree.
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