19-letter words containing n, e, d, l, i
- judicial separation — a decree of legal separation of spouses that does not dissolve the marriage bond.
- junior middleweight — a boxer weighing up to 154 pounds (69.3 kg), between welterweight and middleweight.
- juvenile delinquent — a minor who cannot be controlled by parental authority and commits antisocial or criminal acts, as vandalism or violence.
- kellogg-briand pact — a treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy and urging peaceful means for the settlement of international disputes, originally signed in 1928 by 15 nations, later joined by 49 others.
- kill sth stone-dead — If you kill something such as an idea or emotion stone-dead, you completely destroy it.
- kilobits per second — (unit) (kbps, kb/s) A unit of data rate where 1 kb/s = 1000 bits per second. This contrasts with units of storage where 1 Kb = 1024 bits (note upper case K).
- king charles's head — a fixed idea; personal obsession
- kingdom of lorraine — an early medieval kingdom on the Meuse, Moselle, and Rhine rivers: later a duchy
- ladies-of-the-night — plural of lady-of-the-night.
- lady of the evening — a prostitute.
- lakshadweep islands — a group of 26 coral islands and reefs in the Arabian Sea, off the SW coast of India: a union territory of India since 1956. Administrative centre: Kavaratti Island. Pop: 60 595 (2001). Area: 28 sq km (11 sq miles)
- landscape architect — A landscape architect is the same as a landscape gardener.
- landscape gardening — the art or trade of designing or rearranging large gardens, estates, etc.
- leading aircraftman — the rank above aircraftman
- leading coefficient — the coefficient of the term of highest degree in a given polynomial. 5 is the leading coefficient in 5 x 3 + 3 x 2 − 2 x + 1.
- learning disability — a disorder, as dyslexia, usually affecting school-age children of normal or above-normal intelligence, characterized by difficulty in understanding or using spoken or written language, and thought to be related to impairment or slowed development of perceptual motor skills.
- let one's hair down — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- level playing field — a state of equality; an equal opportunity.
- liaodong pensinsula — a peninsula of NE China, in S Manchuria extending south into the Yellow Sea: forms the S part of Liaoning province
- lie down on the job — to put forth less than one's best efforts
- lighten sb's burden — If someone or something lightens your burden or your load, they make a bad or difficult situation better for you.
- like a dog's dinner — dressed smartly or ostentatiously
- limited partnership — a partnership formed by at least one general partner and at least one special partner.
- line of demarcation — a separation between things deemed to be distinct
- linear independence — (in linear algebra) the property of a set of elements in a vector space in which none of the vectors can be written as a linear combination of the others.
- load-bearing printf — (programming, humour) The kind of bug present in a program which works correctly when producing debug output but fails when the debugging is turned off. The expression combines load-bearing wall and printf as used in debugging by printf.
- louis ii de bourbon — Condé, Prince de.
- manned space flight — space travel in vehicles with a human crew
- medical examination — physical examination
- melodic minor scale — minor scale (def 2).
- mermaid's wineglass — a colony of green algae, Acetabularia crenulata, of warm seas, having a cup-shaped cap on a slender stalk.
- mid-autumn festival — a Chinese festival that is held to celebrate the end of the summer harvest, when the crops have been gathered.
- midnight regulation — a rule or directive approved by the federal government near the end of a president’s term of office
- mild silver protein — a compound of silver and a protein, applied to mucous membranes as a mild antiseptic.
- millennium meltdown — Year 2000
- missing fundamental — a tone, not present in the sound received by the ear, whose pitch is that of the difference between the two tones that are sounded
- mohammed ali jinnah — Mohammed Ali ("Quaid-i-Azam") 1876–1948, Muslim leader in India: first governor general of Pakistan 1947–48.
- molybdenum trioxide — a white, crystalline, sparingly water-soluble powder, MoO 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of molybdenum compounds.
- mordvinian republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Saransk. Pop: 888 700 (2002). Area: 26 200 sq km (10 110 sq miles)
- moses-in-the-cradle — a plant, Rhoeo spathacea, native to the West Indies and Central America, having leaves with purple undersides and white flowers enclosed in a boat-shaped envelope formed by two bracts.
- mount desert island — an island off the coast of E central Maine: summer resort; forms part of Acadia National Park. 14 miles (23 km) long; 8 miles (13 km) wide.
- mousseline de laine — a thin worsted fabric, often having a printed pattern.
- mulheim an der ruhr — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, near Essen.
- multidimensionality — The property of being multidimensional.
- multimedia analysis — Multimedia analysis is the consideration of all possible risks relating to pollution and waste management.
- new zealand spinach — a plant, Tetragonia tetragonioides, of warm regions, cultivated for its edible leaves, eaten as a vegetable.
- non-confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
- non-distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- nordrhein-westfalen — German name of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- norfolk island pine — a coniferous evergreen tree, Araucaria heterophylla (or A. excelsa), having whorled branches and needlelike foliage, widely cultivated as a houseplant.