16-letter words containing n, i, d, a, t, e
- knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
- lakeland terrier — one of a breed of small, slender terriers, raised originally in northwestern England for hunting foxes.
- landed immigrant — foreigner: permanent resident
- latter-day saint — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- laurentides park — a national park in SE Canada, in Quebec province between the St. Lawrence and Lake St. John.
- lay intermediary — a layperson who is interposed between a lawyer and client to prevent the existence of a direct relationship between them.
- leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
- leap in the dark — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- led page printer — LED printer
- legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
- lenticular cloud — a very smooth, round or oval, lens-shaped cloud that is often seen, singly or stacked in groups, near a mountain ridge.
- lightheartedness — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- like cat and dog — quarrelling savagely
- limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
- limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
- line of latitude — an imaginary line on a globe, map, etc, indicating latitude
- little englander — an English person who believes the best interests of Britain are served by attention to Britain itself, rather than to the concerns of the empire.
- long-established — having a long history; old
- mainstream media — newspapers, magazines, television, and radio, as opposed to social media
- manifest destiny — the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences.
- maritime command — the naval branch of the Canadian armed forces
- market gardening — Chiefly British. truck farm.
- mass destruction — devastation on a large scale
- matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
- media atropatene — an ancient region in NW Iran, formerly a part of Media.
- medicine cabinet — cupboard where medication is stored
- melodic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
- mental defective — a person who suffers from a learning disability or from some form of mental illness
- metavanadic acid — an oxyacid of vanadium, known chiefly in the form of its vanadate salts; Formula: H4V2O7
- mexican standoff — a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can win.
- middelmannetjies — Plural form of middelmannetjie.
- middle stone age — the Mesolithic period.
- minamata disease — a severe form of mercury poisoning, characterized by neurological degeneration.
- mind over matter — You can use the expression mind over matter to describe situations in which a person seems to be able to control events, physical objects, or the condition of their own body using their mind.
- mineral deposits — amounts of minerals that occur naturally in particular areas
- miniature poodle — a breed of poodle, bred to be much smaller than standard poodles
- misunderestimate — (colloquial, malapropism, or, intentionally incorrect) To underestimate by mistake.
- misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
- mittelland canal — a canal in Germany, linking the Rivers Rhine and Elbe. Length: 325 km (202 miles)
- most wanted list — an actual or supposed listing of the names of persons who are urgently being sought for a specific reason, as apprehension for an alleged crime.
- mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- multidimensional — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
- mutual impedance — the ratio of the potential difference between either of two pairs of terminals to the current applied at the other pair of terminals when the circuit is open.
- natural disaster — meteorological or geological catastrophe
- nature-identical — manufactured to be identical to a natural substance
- nicotine-stained — discoloured by the effects of nicotine
- nightingale ward — a long hospital ward with beds on either side and the nurses' station in the middle