16-letter words containing to
- director-general — the executive head of an organization or of a major subdivision, as a branch or agency, of government.
- discriminatorily — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
- displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
- distrito federal — Federal District. Abbreviation: D.F.
- diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
- doctor's commons — the London building of the College of Advocates and Doctors of Law between 1572 and 1867, in which the ecclesiastical and Admiralty courts were housed
- doctor's surgery — A doctor's surgery is the same as a doctor's office.
- 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.
- 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
- drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
- ecotoxicological — Of or pertaining to ecotoxicology.
- ectoparasiticide — Any pesticide designed to kill parasites that live on the exterior of a host.
- editorialization — The act of editorializing, or something editorialized.
- electrical storm — thunder, lightning
- electroreceptors — Plural form of electroreceptor.
- emulator program — (networking) (EP) IBM software that emulates a 2701/2/3 hard-wired IBM 360 communications controller and resides in a 370x/372x/374x comms controller. See also Partitioned Emulation Program (PEP).
- encephalitogenic — That can cause encephalitis.
- 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.
- entrenching tool — a small, collapsible spade used by a soldier in the field for digging foxholes and the like.
- erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
- erythrocytometer — an instrument for counting the number or measuring the size of red blood cells in a sample of blood
- escalator clause — a clause in a contract stipulating an adjustment in wages, prices, etc, in the event of specified changes in conditions, such as a large rise in the cost of living or price of raw materials
- eschatologically — In an eschatological manner.
- external auditor — sb brought in to check financial records
- external storage — storage, as on disk or tape, supplemental to and slower than main storage, not under the direct control of the CPU and generally contained outside it: Secondary storage for this system is contained on videodisk.
- exterritoriality — Extraterritoriality.
- extraterritorial — (of a law or decree) valid outside a country's territory.
- extrinsic factor — vitamin B12
- factor of safety — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
- fair to middling — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
- farewell to arms — a novel (1929) by Ernest Hemingway.
- farmington hills — a city in SE Michigan.
- feel-good factor — When journalists refer to the feel-good factor, they mean that people are feeling hopeful and optimistic about the future.
- fertility factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- finance director — financial manager
- finite automaton — Finite State Machine
- flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- flash eliminator — a device fitted to the muzzle of a firearm to reduce the flash made by the ignited propellant gases
- flash photolysis — the study of photochemical reaction mechanisms in gases by analyzing spectroscopically the reaction products in a gas mixture irradiated with a powerful light flash.
- flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
- flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
- flutter tonguing — a method of sounding a wind instrument, esp the flute, with a rolling movement of the tongue
- food intolerance — an intolerance of a specific type of food, causing an adverse reaction
- footsteps editor — the technician who adds sound effects, such as doors closing, rain falling, etc, during the postproduction sound-dubbing process
- fort sam houston — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in San Antonio, Tex.
- foundation stone — any of the stones composing the foundation of a building.
- francis townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
- french directory — the body of five directors in power in France from 1795 until their overthrow by Napoleon in 1799
- frontal lobotomy — Surgery. a psychosurgical procedure in which the frontal lobes are separated from the rest of the brain by cutting the connecting nerve fibers.