16-letter words containing n, a, d, u, t
- dual-nationality — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
- duplex apartment — an apartment with rooms on two connected floors.
- dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
- dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
- dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
- educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
- exchange student — sb who studies abroad
- exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
- exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
- external auditor — sb brought in to check financial records
- external student — a student studying a university subject extramurally
- fade-in fade-out — an optical effect in which a shot appears gradually out of darkness and then gradually disappears
- fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
- find favour with — to be approved of by someone
- fool around with — have casual sex
- for the duration — If you say that something will happen for the duration, you mean that it will happen for as long as a particular situation continues.
- foundation stone — any of the stones composing the foundation of a building.
- 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.
- fund supermarket — an online facility offering discounted investment opportunities and advice
- fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
- 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.
- fundamental unit — one of a set of unrelated units that form the basis of a system of units. For example, the metre, kilogram, and second are fundamental units of the SI system
- fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
- funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
- gaudí (i cornet) — An‧to‧nio (ɑnˈtɔnjɔ ) ; änt^ōˈny^ō) 1852-1926; Sp. architect
- golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
- graduate student — postgraduate-level student
- grand inquisitor — (often initial capital letters) the presiding officer of a court of inquisition.
- granulated paper — paper with a roughened surface
- granulated sugar — a coarsely ground white sugar, widely used as a sweetener.
- great-granduncle — an uncle of one's grandfather or grandmother.
- ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
- grounded neutral — Grounded neutral is the situation in which the neutral wire of an electrical supply system is connected to ground.
- guaranteed stock — stock for which dividends are guaranteed by a company other than the one issuing the stock.
- gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- hang around with — to associate or socialize with
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- hit-and-run raid — a raid relying on surprise allied to a rapid departure from the scene of operations for the desired effect
- hudsonian godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
- 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.
- hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
- immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
- immunomodulation — Any of several adjustments in the level of an immune response.
- immunomodulatory — (medical) Having the ability to alter or regulate immune functions.
- in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
- in quadruplicate — in four identical copies