16-letter words containing o, n, d
- double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
- down at the heel — with the heels of one's shoes in need of repair
- down memory lane — If you say that someone is taking a walk or trip down memory lane, you mean that they are talking, writing, or thinking about something that happened to them a long time ago.
- down one's alley — a passage, as through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the street to backyards, garages, etc.
- down to the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- downy woodpecker — a small, North American woodpecker, Picoides pubescens, having black and white plumage.
- drag coefficient — a measure of the drag of an object in a moving fluid, esp air
- draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
- dree one's weird — to endure one's fate
- dressing station — a post or center that gives first aid to the wounded, located near a combat area.
- drift transistor — a transistor in which the impurity concentration in the base increases from the collector-base junction to the emitter-base junction, producing a resistivity gradient that greatly increases its high-frequency response
- drinking problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- driver education — a course of study, as for high-school students, that teaches the techniques of driving a vehicle, along with basic vehicle maintenance, safety precautions, and traffic regulations and laws.
- drop (down) dead — If you say that a person or animal dropped dead or dropped down dead, you mean that they died very suddenly and unexpectedly.
- dry distillation — destructive distillation.
- dual nationality — dual citizenship (def 1).
- dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
- dual-nationality — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
- dumont d'urville — Jules Sébastien César [zhyl sey-bas-tyan sey-zar] /ʒül seɪ basˈtyɛ̃ seɪˈzar/ (Show IPA), 1790–1842, French naval officer: explored South Pacific and Antarctic.
- duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
- dyed-in-the-wool — through and through; complete: a dyed-in-the-wool reformer.
- dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
- dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
- eastern orthodox — of or relating to the Orthodox Church.
- edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
- editorialization — The act of editorializing, or something editorialized.
- edsel ford range — a mountain range in Antarctica, E of the Ross Sea.
- educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
- embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
- encyclopedically — In an encyclopedic way; in the manner of an encyclopedia.
- endarterectomies — Plural form of endarterectomy.
- ending inventory — An ending inventory is all of the goods, services, or materials that a business has available for use or sale at the end of an accounting period.
- endocannabinoids — Plural form of endocannabinoid.
- endocranial cast — a cast made of the inside of a cranial cavity to show the size and shape of the brain: used esp in anthropology
- endocrinologists — Plural form of endocrinologist.
- endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
- entente cordiale — a friendly understanding between political powers: less formal than an alliance
- equidistribution — An equal distribution.
- ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
- ethnomethodology — A method of sociological analysis that examines how individuals use everyday conversation and gestures to construct a common-sense view of the world.
- exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
- exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
- extension ladder — a ladder that can be made longer by pulling out an extra section
- external auditor — sb brought in to check financial records
- extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
- fade-in fade-out — an optical effect in which a shot appears gradually out of darkness and then gradually disappears
- fair to middling — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
- false dragonhead — a North American plant, Physostegia virginiana, of the mint family, having a spike of tubular, two-lipped, pink or white flowers.
- fandango on core — (jargon, programming) (Unix/C, from the Mexican dance) In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a core dump, or corrupts the malloc arena in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have "done a fandango on core". On low-end personal machines without an MMU, this can corrupt the operating system itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the rhumba, cha-cha, or watusi, may be substituted. See aliasing bug, precedence lossage, smash the stack, memory leak, memory smash, overrun screw, core.
- fantail goldfish — an artificially bred, hardy variety of goldfish, usually oval-shaped and deep orange or calico, with a deeply cleft, four-lobed tail held in line with the body.