15-letter words containing n, i, d, l, e, o
- soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
- special edition — newspaper, magazine: extra issue
- stilpnosiderite — a resinous variety of limonite with a black-brown colour
- student council — a representative body composed chiefly of students chosen by their classmates to organize social and extracurricular activities and to participate in the government of a school or college.
- synecdochically — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
- take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
- the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
- the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
- thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- time dilatation — Physics. (in relativity) the apparent loss of time of a moving clock as observed by a stationary observer.
- tirso de molina — Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1535–1600, Spanish Jesuit theologian.
- tokelau islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
- trial and error — experimentation or investigation in which various methods or means are tried and faulty ones eliminated in order to find the correct solution or to achieve the desired result or effect.
- tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
- two-dimensional — having the dimensions of height and width only: a two-dimensional surface.
- ultra-modernist — very advanced in ideas, design, or techniques.
- un-coincidental — happening by or resulting from coincidence; by chance: a coincidental meeting.
- un-considerable — rather large or great in size, distance, extent, etc.: It cost a considerable amount. We took a considerable length of time to decide.
- unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
- underpopulation — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
- universal donor — a person with blood of group O.
- unknown soldier — an unidentified soldier killed in battle and buried with honors, the tomb serving as a memorial to all the unidentified dead of a nation's armed forces. The tomb of the American Unknown Soldier, commemorating a serviceman killed in World War I, was established in the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia in 1921. In 1958, the remains of personnel of World War II and the Korean War were buried alongside the tomb (now called the Tomb of the Unknowns, ). In 1984, a serviceman of the Vietnam War was interred next to the others.
- unmelodiousness — an unmelodious quality or character
- unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
- unskilled labor — work that requires practically no training or experience for its adequate or competent performance.
- url redirection — (web) (Or "URL forwarding") When a web server tells the client browser to obtain a certain requested page from a different location. This is controlled by directives in the server's configuration files or a "Location: header output by a CGI script. The web server stores all its documents in a directory tree rooted at some configured directory, known as its "document root". Normally the URI part of the URL (the part after the hostname) is used as a relative path from the document root to the desired file or directory. A redirect directive allows the server administrator to specify exceptions to this general mapping from URL to file name by telling the browser "try this URL instead". The new URL may be on the same server or a different one and may itself be subject to redirection. The user is normally unaware of this process except that it may introduce extra delay while the browser sends the new request and the browser will usually display the new URL rather than the one the user originally requested.
- volume discount — a reduced price for goods given by a seller on the basis that the buyer buys a large quantity
- walking wounded — casualties, as of a military conflict, who are wounded but ambulatory.
- well-considered — thought about or decided upon with care: a considered opinion.
- well-positioned — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- well-recognized — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
- wilderness road — a 300-mile (500-km) route from eastern Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, explored by Daniel Boone in 1769 and marked as a trail by him and other pioneers in 1775: a major route for early settlers moving west.
- wind-pollinated — being pollinated by airborne pollen.
- window cleaning — the task of washing and shining windows
- window envelope — an envelope with a transparent opening through which the address on the enclosure may be read.
- winter flounder — any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)
- winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
- yellow mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.