16-letter words containing n, a, m, e, d, r
- non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- nuclear medicine — diagnostic and therapeutic medical techniques using radionuclides or radioisotopes.
- numbered account — a bank account whose owner is identified by a number for the purpose of preserving anonymity.
- on her beam-ends — (of a vessel) heeled over through an angle of 90°
- onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
- one-armed bandit — slot machine (def 1).
- orange marmalade — preserve made from oranges
- orange men's day — July 12, an annual celebration in Northern Ireland and certain cities having a large Irish section, especially Liverpool, to mark both the victory of William III over James II at the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690, and the Battle of Augbrim, July 12, 1690.
- oriental emerald — a green variety of corundum used as a gemstone
- oxidation number — the state of an element or ion in a compound with regard to the electrons gained or lost by the element or ion in the reaction that formed the compound, expressed as a positive or negative number indicating the ionic charge of the element or ion.
- painted trillium — a North American trillium, Trillium undulatum, having white flowers streaked with pink or purple.
- performance bond — contract bond.
- permanganic acid — an acid, HMnO 4 , known only in solution.
- phytoremediation — a process of decontaminating soil or water by using plants and trees to absorb or break down pollutants.
- portmanteau word — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
- predetermination — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
- primary deviance — the violation of a norm or rule that does not result in the violator's being stigmatized as deviant.
- private judgment — personal opinion formed independently of the expressed position of an institution, as in matters of religion or politics.
- privet andromeda — a spreading shrub, Lyonia ligustrina, of the eastern U.S., having leafless, white flowers in terminal clusters.
- promotional code — A promotional code is a code offered by retailers to customers who can use it to receive a discounted price when buying products online.
- pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
- quadrimillennial — Occurring every four thousand years.
- queen maud range — a mountain range in Antarctica, in Ross Dependency, S of the Ross Sea.
- radio microphone — a microphone incorporating a radio transmitter so that the user can move around freely
- radium emanation — (formerly) radon.
- rag-and-bone man — a peddler who buys and sells used clothes, rags, etc.; junkman.
- ramsden eyepiece — an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex crown-glass lenses of equal focal length, placed with the convex sides facing each other and with a separation between the lenses of about two-thirds of the focal length of each.
- read only memory — ROM.
- read-only memory — ROM.
- reading material — any matter that can be read; written or printed text
- rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
- redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
- redundancy money — a sum of money given by an employer to an employee who has been made redundant: usually calculated on the basis of the employee's rate of pay and length of service
- reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
- relational model — relational data model
- remedial reading — instruction in reading aimed at increasing speed and comprehension by correcting poor reading habits.
- residential home — a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as esp the elderly, and also children in care or mentally handicapped adults
- rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- romeo and juliet — a tragedy (produced between 1591 and 1596) by Shakespeare.
- rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
- rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
- second-story man — a burglar who enters through an upstairs window.
- secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
- secondary modern — Secondary moderns were schools which existed until recently in Britain for children aged between about eleven and sixteen, where more attention was paid to practical skills and less to academic study than in a grammar school.
- secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
- sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
- self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
- shaker and mover — mover and shaker
- sinus meridianii — an area on the equator of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.