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16-letter words containing t, e, r, m, d

  • distributed term — a term applying equally to every member of the class it designates, as doctors in no doctors are overworked
  • diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
  • documentary film — factual, informative film
  • dome of the rock — a shrine in Jerusalem at the site from which Muhammad ascended through the seven heavens to the throne of God: built on the site of the Jewish Temple.
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
  • domestic service — the work of household servants
  • dominical letter — any one of the letters from A to G used in church calendars to mark the Sundays throughout any particular year, serving primarily to aid in determining the date of Easter.
  • 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.
  • dramatic society — an amateur dramatics club
  • drinking-up time — (in Britain) a short time allowed for finishing drinks before closing time in a public house
  • 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.
  • duplex apartment — an apartment with rooms on two connected floors.
  • embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
  • endarterectomies — Plural form of endarterectomy.
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
  • feline distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • feme-sole trader — a married woman who is entitled to carry on business on her own account and responsibility, independently of her husband.
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • fourth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting unlawful search and seizure of personal property.
  • fourth dimension — Physics, Mathematics. a dimension in addition to length, width, and depth, used so as to be able to employ geometrical language in discussing phenomena that depend on four variables: Time is considered a fourth dimension for locating points in space-time.
  • frederic mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
  • from the word go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • fund supermarket — an online facility offering discounted investment opportunities and advice
  • fundamental star — one of a number of stars with positions that have been determined accurately and that are used as reference stars for the determination of positions of other celestial objects.
  • garden apartment — an apartment on the ground floor of an apartment building having direct access to a backyard or garden.
  • garment district — an area in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, including portions of Seventh Avenue and Broadway between 34th and 40th Streets and the streets intersecting them, that contains many factories, showrooms, etc., related to the design, manufacture, and wholesale distribution of clothing.
  • gaudeamus igitur — let us therefore rejoice
  • gender-normative — cisgender.
  • gentleman friend — a man with whom a woman is romantically involved; suitor.
  • give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
  • gold star mother — an American woman whose son or daughter has died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
  • governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
  • grant-maintained — funded by national government
  • hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
  • hard times token — any of a series of U.S. copper tokens, issued 1834–41, bearing a political inscription or advertising message and serving as currency during coin shortages.
  • have a hard time — experience difficulties
  • head arrangement — a roughly outlined musical arrangement that is played from memory and is often learned by ear.
  • headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
  • headmistressship — (rare) Alternative form of headmistress-ship.
  • hemorrhoidectomy — the surgical removal of hemorrhoids.
  • hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
  • heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
  • hot buttered rum — a drink made with rum, hot water, and sugar, served with a lump of butter in a mug.
  • humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
  • 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.
  • hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
  • hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
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