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16-letter words containing r, e, d, i

  • uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
  • unimproved value — the valuation of land for rating purposes, disregarding the value of buildings or other development
  • united provinces — (used with a singular or plural verb) former name of Uttar Pradesh.
  • unmarried mother — a woman who has a baby while she is not married
  • unparticularized — to make particular.
  • unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
  • unrealized gains — Unrealized gains are gains from the increase in value of an asset that you still own.
  • unskilled worker — a worker who does not have any special skill or training
  • unter den linden — the main street of Berlin, extending to the Brandenburg Gate
  • upland sandpiper — a large, field-inhabiting sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, of eastern North America, resembling a plover: now protected and increasing in numbers.
  • uranium trioxide — a radioactive orange powder, UO 3 , used in the manufacture of some ceramics.
  • user-defined key — a key on the keyboard of a computer that can be used to carry out any of a limited number of predefined actions as selected by the user
  • vancouver island — an island of SW Canada, off the SW coast of British Columbia: separated from the Canadian mainland by the Strait of Georgia and Queen Charlotte Sound, and from the US mainland by Juan de Fuca Strait; the largest island off the W coast of North America. Chief town: Victoria. Pop: 706 243 (2001). Area: 32 137 sq km (12 408 sq miles)
  • vectorcardiogram — the graphic record produced by vectorcardiography.
  • venereal disease — sexually transmitted disease. Abbreviation: VD.
  • verbal adjective — an adjective derived from a verb, as, in English, smiling in smiling eyes, or, in Greek, batós “going,” “moving,” derived from baínen “to go,” “to move.”.
  • verbal diarrhoea — a tendency to speak at excessive length
  • video journalism — the techniques, methods, etc., of preparing and broadcasting informational, social, political, and other nonfiction subjects via news and documentary programs.
  • video-conference — A video-conference is a meeting that takes place using video conferencing.
  • videodisc player — an electronic device for playing videodiscs through a television set.
  • vinylidene group — the bivalent group C 2 H 2 , derived from ethylene.
  • vinylidene resin — any synthetic resin in which the basic structure consists of the H2C:CR2 group, where R usually is a halogen
  • vinylpyrrolidone — Vinylpyrrolidone is a substance used as a binder in pharmaceuticals.
  • vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
  • voice production — the use of the voice in order to create particular effects
  • vulcanized fiber — a leatherlike substance made by compression of layers of paper or cloth that have been treated with acids or zinc chloride, used chiefly for electric insulation.
  • walking dragline — a very large-capacity dragline mounted on feet or pads instead of tracks
  • ward christensen — (person)   The inventor of XMODEM and of the BBS. Ward did physics in college and programmed mainframes for IBM. Ward and friend Randy Suess set up their BBS on first on 1978-02-16 in Chicago. It ran on an S-100 computer with 64k RAM and two single-sided 8" 250kB diskettes.
  • weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
  • website designer — creator of internet pages and sites
  • weighted average — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
  • well-appreciated — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
  • well-articulated — made clear or distinct: articulated sounds.
  • well-diversified — distinguished by various forms or by a variety of objects: diversified activity.
  • well-experienced — wise or skillful in a particular field through experience: an experienced teacher.
  • well-illustrated — containing pictures, drawings, and other illustrations: an illustrated book.
  • west springfield — a city in SW Massachusetts, near Springfield.
  • western sandwich — a sandwich with a western omelet for a filling.
  • wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around
  • whirling dervish — a member of a Turkish order of dervishes, or Sufis, whose ritual consists in part of a highly stylized whirling dance.
  • white propaganda — propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from
  • white wood aster — a composite plant, Aster divaricatus, of North America, having flat-topped clusters of white ray flowers and growing in dry woods.
  • white-eyed vireo — a vireo, Vireo griseus, of eastern North America, having olive, yellow, and white plumage, a yellow ring around each eye, and white irises.
  • white-haired boy — a favourite; darling
  • whited sepulcher — an evil person who feigns goodness; hypocrite. Matt. 23:27.
  • whited sepulchre — hypocrite
  • whole nine yards — a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
  • wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
  • willem-alexander — full name Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand. born 1967, king of the Netherlands from 2013
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