15-letter words containing n, e, t, l, d
- platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
- pleasant island — former name of Nauru.
- pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
- point d'alencon — Alençon lace (def 1).
- polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
- polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
- portland cement — a type of hydraulic cement usually made by burning a mixture of limestone and clay in a kiln.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
- prepresidential — describing the period before a person's rise to presidency
- president-elect — a president after election but before induction into office.
- printer's devil — devil (def 5).
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- production line — an arrangement of machines or sequence of operations involved with a single manufacturing operation or production process. Compare assembly line, line1 (def 29).
- proletarianized — to convert or transform into a member or members of the proletariat: to proletarianize the middle class.
- pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- pseudo-solution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
- pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
- radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
- radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
- recollectedness — the state or quality of being recollected
- reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
- regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
- reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
- relational dbms — relational database
- rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
- rent-controlled — regulated by law to control the rent a landlord can charge for domestic accommodation and to guarantee a landlord's right to evict tenants
- rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
- ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- rolled into one — If something is several things rolled into one, it combines the main features or qualities of those things.
- round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- salt and pepper — pepper-and-salt.
- salt-and-pepper — pepper-and-salt.
- secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
- self-adjustment — adjustment of oneself or itself, as to the environment.
- self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
- self-controlled — Someone who is self-controlled is able to not show their feelings or not do the things that their feelings make them want to do.
- self-debasement — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
- self-definition — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
- self-inductance — inductance inducing an electromotive force in the same circuit in which the motivating change of current occurs, equal to the number of flux linkages per unit of current.
- self-infatuated — to inspire or possess with a foolish or unreasoning passion, as of love.
- self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- self-interested — If you describe someone as self-interested, you disapprove of them because they always want to do what is best for themselves rather than for other people.
- self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.