16-letter words containing t, u, d, e
- judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- jude the obscure — a novel (1895) by Thomas Hardy.
- kentucky windage — a method of correcting for windage, gravity, etc., by aiming a weapon to one side of the target instead of by adjusting the sights.
- kurdaitcha shoes — (in certain Central Australian Aboriginal tribes) the emu-feather shoes worn by the kurdaitcha on his mission so that his footsteps may not be traced
- labrador current — a cold ocean current flowing southwards off the coast of Labrador and meeting the warm Gulf Stream, causing dense fogs off the coast of Newfoundland
- laurentides park — a national park in SE Canada, in Quebec province between the St. Lawrence and Lake St. John.
- leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
- lenticular cloud — a very smooth, round or oval, lens-shaped cloud that is often seen, singly or stacked in groups, near a mountain ridge.
- 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-stop bus — a bus which only stops at a small number of predetermined stops, rather than on request
- line of latitude — an imaginary line on a globe, map, etc, indicating latitude
- lithium chloride — a white, water-soluble, deliquescent, crystalline solid, LiCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of mineral water, especially lithia water, and as a flux in metallurgy.
- lithium fluoride — a fine, white, slightly water-soluble powder, LiF, used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramics.
- luck of the draw — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- madame butterfly — an opera (1904) by Giacomo Puccini.
- manufactured gas — a gaseous fuel created from coal, oil, etc., as differentiated from natural gas.
- many-plumed moth — a moth of the species, Alucita hexadactyla
- married quarters — the housing provided on a military base for married servicemen or servicewomen
- mass destruction — devastation on a large scale
- medieval studies — a course of study based on the history of 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.
- medulloblastomas — Plural form of medulloblastoma.
- menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
- mercury autocode — Autocode for the Ferranti Mercury machine.
- metes and bounds — the precisely described boundary lines of a parcel of land, as found in a deed
- middle latitudes — the latitude of the point that is midway between two parallels on the same side of the equator.
- miniature poodle — a breed of poodle, bred to be much smaller than standard poodles
- misunderestimate — (colloquial, malapropism, or, intentionally incorrect) To underestimate by mistake.
- misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
- monocotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the monocotyledons.
- mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- muddy the waters — If someone or something muddies the waters, they cause a situation or issue to seem less clear and less easy to understand.
- multi-discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- multidimensional — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
- multidisciplined — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
- multiplepoinding — an action to determine the division of a property or fund between several claimants, brought by or on behalf of the present holder
- musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
- mustard-coloured — of a brownish-yellow colour
- mutual impedance — the ratio of the potential difference between either of two pairs of terminals to the current applied at the other pair of terminals when the circuit is open.
- natural disaster — meteorological or geological catastrophe
- nature-identical — manufactured to be identical to a natural substance
- neurodevelopment — The development of the nervous system during the life of an organism.
- nevado de toluca — a volcano in central Mexico, in Mexico state near Toluca: crater partly filled by a lake. Height: 4577 m (15 017 ft)
- nitrogen mustard — any of the class of poisonous, blistering compounds, as C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, analogous in composition to mustard gas but containing nitrogen instead of sulfur: used in the treatment of cancer and similar diseases; mechlorethamine.
- no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
- non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- non-reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- non-reproductive — serving to reproduce.