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16-letter words containing nd

  • in the ascendant — If someone or something is in the ascendant, they have or are getting more power, influence, or popularity than other people or things.
  • incorrespondence — Lack of correspondence; failure to correspond or match up; disagreement; disproportion.
  • indecency charge — an accusation of committing indecency
  • indecent assault — a sexual offense, other than rape, committed by one person against another.
  • indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
  • indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
  • independence day — July 4, a U.S. holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
  • indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
  • indexing service — a service that indexes the contents of a number of publications for use in printed or machine-readable form.
  • indian breadroot — breadroot.
  • indian liquorice — a woody leguminous climbing plant, Abrus precatorius, native to tropical Asia and naturalized elsewhere, having scarlet black-spotted poisonous seeds, used as beads, and roots used as a substitute for liquorice
  • indian meal moth — a small pyralid moth, Plodia interpunctella, whose larvae are an important pest of stored cereals.
  • indian territory — a former territory of the U.S.: now in E Oklahoma. About 31,000 sq. mi. (80,000 sq. km).
  • indian wrestling — arm wrestling
  • indianapolis 500 — a 500-mile oval-track race for rear-engine cars having particular specifications, held annually in Indianapolis, Ind.
  • indigestibleness — The quality of being indigestible.
  • indirect address — the address in a storage location that contains the actual machine address of a data item or of other information, as the next instruction, or that contains another indirect address.
  • indirect primary — a primary in which members of a party elect delegates to a party convention that in turn elects the party's candidates.
  • indiscernibility — The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.
  • indiscriminantly — Misspelling of indiscriminately.
  • indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
  • indiscriminating — not discriminating.
  • indiscrimination — an act or instance of not discriminating.
  • indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
  • indispensability — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
  • indisputableness — The property of being indisputable.
  • indissolubleness — The quality of being indissoluble.
  • indivisibilities — not divisible; not separable into parts; incapable of being divided: one nation indivisible.
  • indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
  • induced topology — a topology of a subset of a topological space, obtained by intersecting the subset with every open set in the topology of the space.
  • induction course — training for new job
  • induction stroke — The induction stroke is the stroke of the piston in an internal combustion engine in which working fluid is drawn into the cylinder.
  • industrial union — a labor union composed of workers in various trades and crafts within one industry.
  • industrial waste — waste materials left over from a manufacturing process in industrial buildings such as factories and mines
  • interdependences — Plural form of interdependence.
  • interdependently — mutually dependent; depending on each other.
  • interim dividend — smaller payout
  • isle of portland — a rugged limestone peninsula in SW England, in Dorset, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus and by Chesil Bank: the lighthouse of Portland Bill lies at the S tip; famous for the quarrying of Portland stone, a fine building material. Pop (town): 12 000 (latest est)
  • j. random hacker — (jargon)   /J rand'm hak'r/ MIT jargon for a mythical figure; the archetypal hacker nerd. This may originally have been inspired by "J. Fred Muggs", a show-biz chimpanzee whose name was a household word back in the early days of TMRC, and was probably influenced by J. Presper Eckert (one of the co-inventors of the electronic computer). See random, Suzie COBOL.
  • jump up and down — bounce
  • keep under wraps — not reveal
  • 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.
  • keyword indexing — the process of constructing or compiling an index to a document or other item by using keywords that describe the item.
  • kiss and make up — be reconciled
  • kit and caboodle — a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
  • knuckle sandwich — a punch in the mouth with a clenched fist.
  • kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
  • lakeland terrier — one of a breed of small, slender terriers, raised originally in northwestern England for hunting foxes.
  • land-poor farmer — a farmer who owns much unprofitable land and lacks the money to maintain its fertility or improve it
  • landed immigrant — foreigner: permanent resident
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