16-letter words containing t, e, a, l, d, y
- display terminal — Visual Display Unit
- documentary film — factual, informative film
- dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
- double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
- dry-cell battery — a dry battery
- dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
- earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
- electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
- elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
- ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
- federalist party — a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.
- gelatin dynamite — a high explosive consisting of a gelatinized mass of nitroglycerin with cellulose nitrate added.
- greater-doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
- heavy with child — pregnant
- hybrid perpetual — a type of cultivated rose bred from varieties having vigorous growth and more or less recurrent bloom.
- hydrated alumina — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, Al(OH) 3 or Al 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, obtained chiefly from bauxite: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, and printing inks, in dyeing, and in medicine as an antacid and in the treatment of ulcers.
- hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
- immediate family — parents, siblings, children
- implied warranty — a warranty not stated explicitly by the seller of merchandise or real property but presumed for reasons of commercial or legal custom (distinguished from express warranty).
- indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
- indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
- indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
- indispensability — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
- it is early days — Early means near the beginning of something such as a piece of work or a process.
- knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- lady of the lake — a narrative poem (1810) by Sir Walter Scott.
- latter-day saint — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- lay down the law — the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
- lay intermediary — a layperson who is interposed between a lawyer and client to prevent the existence of a direct relationship between them.
- lead by the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- 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.
- leveraged buyout — the purchase of a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral, and often discharging the debt and realizing a profit by liquidating the company. Abbreviation: LBO.
- limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
- limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
- lonely hearts ad — an advertisement placed by someone who is trying to find a lover or a friend
- lord proprietary — (in Colonial America) an owner, governor, or grantee of a proprietary colony
- madame butterfly — an opera (1904) by Giacomo Puccini.
- many-plumed moth — a moth of the species, Alucita hexadactyla
- mayfield heights — a city in N Ohio, near Cleveland.
- medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
- medium artillery — guns and howitzers of more than 105mm and less than 155mm caliber, sometimes including the 155mm howitzers. Compare heavy artillery (def 2), light artillery (def 2).
- medullary sheath — Botany. a narrow zone made up of the innermost layer of woody tissue immediately surrounding the pith in plants.
- melodramatically — In a melodramatic manner.
- methacrylic acid — a colorless, liquid acid, C 4 H 6 O 2 , produced synthetically, whose methyl ester, methyl methacrylate, polymerizes to yield a clear plastic.
- methodologically — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- military academy — a private school organized somewhat along the lines of and following some of the procedures of military life.
- molybdate orange — a pigment consisting of a solid solution of sulfate, molybdate, and chromate compounds of lead.
- nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
- ocellated turkey — a wild turkey, Agriocharis ocellata, of Yucatán, Belize, and Guatemala, typically having green, blue, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and eyelike spots on the tail.