16-letter words containing o, l, d, e, n
- non-coincidental — happening by or resulting from coincidence; by chance: a coincidental meeting.
- non-confidential — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
- non-debilitating — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
- non-extraditable — capable of being extradited; subject to extradition: an extraditable person.
- non-reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- nonbiodegradable — Not biodegradable.
- nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
- nondurable goods — goods that remain usable for, or must be replaced within, a relatively short period of time, as food, apparel, or fabrics
- north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
- north lauderdale — a city in SE Florida.
- north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
- north ridgeville — a town in N Ohio.
- northern ireland — a political division of the United Kingdom, in the NE part of the island of Ireland. 5238 sq. mi. (13,565 sq. km). Capital: Belfast.
- nusslein-volhard — Christiane [kris-tee-ah-nuh,, kris-tyah-] /ˌkrɪs tiˈɑ nə,, krɪsˈtyɑ-/ (Show IPA), born 1942, German biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
- oder-neisse line — the boundary between Poland and East Germany after World War II.
- old north french — the dialect of Old French spoken in northern France. Abbreviation: ONF.
- old world monkey — any of various anthropoid primates of the family Cercopithecidae, of Africa, the Arabian peninsula, and Asia, typically having a hairless face, forward- or downward-directed nostrils, relatively short arms, flat nails, and either having a rudimentary tail or using the tail for balance rather than grasping, and including the baboon, colobus monkey, guenon, langur, macaque, mandrill, mangabey, patas, proboscis, and talapoin.
- old-girl network — an association among women that is comparable to or modeled on an old-boy network.
- oligodendroglial — Of or pertaining to the oligodendroglia.
- oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
- on a world scale — in a way that involves the whole world
- on the breadline — impoverished; living at subsistence level
- on the sidelines — in the area along the sidelines
- once and for all — former; having at one time been: the once and future king.
- one's salad days — If you refer to your salad days, you are referring to a period of your life when you were young and inexperienced.
- opposed-cylinder — (of an internal-combustion engine) having cylinders on opposite sides of the crankcase in the same plane
- orange marmalade — preserve made from oranges
- order in council — (in Britain and various other Commonwealth countries) a decree of the Cabinet, usually made under the authority of a statute: in theory a decree of the sovereign and Privy Council
- ordinary jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
- oriental emerald — a green variety of corundum used as a gemstone
- otherworldliness — The quality of being otherworldly.
- panel discussion — a formal discussion before an audience for which the topic, speakers, etc., have been selected in advance.
- parallelepipedon — a prism with six faces, all parallelograms.
- partial ordering — a relation defined on a set, having the properties that each element is in relation to itself, the relation is transitive, and if two elements are in relation to each other, the two elements are equal.
- parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
- pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium
- percussion drill — a drill that is operated by percussion
- personal details — details about a person such as their name and address
- phase modulation — radio transmission in which the carrier wave is modulated by changing its phase to transmit the amplitude and pitch of the signal.
- picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
- play a lone hand — to operate without assistance
- play one's cards — to carry out one's plans; take action (esp in the phrase play one's cards right)
- poisoned chalice — If you refer to a job or an opportunity as a poisoned chalice, you mean that it seems to be very attractive but you believe it will lead to failure.
- polar coordinate — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
- polycondensation — formation of a polymer by chemical condensation with the elimination of a small molecule, such as water.
- polyhedral angle — a configuration consisting of the lateral faces of a polyhedron around one of its vertices. The portion of a pyramid including one of its points is such a configuration.
- predispositional — the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
- pride oneself on — to be proud of