16-letter words containing ns
- demutualizations — Plural form of demutualization.
- dental insurance — Dental insurance is insurance that pays for treatment by a dentist.
- destabilizations — Plural form of destabilization.
- devonshire cream — clotted cream.
- devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
- dimension lumber — building lumber cut to standard or specified sizes.
- disconsolateness — (uncountable) The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
- dissatisfactions — Plural form of dissatisfaction.
- diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
- dneprodzerzhinsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
- 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
- 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
- driver's license — a permit, as one issued by a state's motor vehicle bureau, that allows the holder to drive a motor vehicle on public roads.
- dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
- dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
- elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
- energy-intensive — using large amount of energy
- ethnic cleansing — genocide
- exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
- expansion bottle — a tank collecting coolant from a radiator while an engine is heated, and from which the coolant returns to the radiator when the engine cools
- experimentations — Plural form of experimentation.
- extensible shell — (operating system) (es) A Unix shell written by Byron Rakitzis <[email protected]> and Paul Haahr <[email protected]>, derived from rc. Es has real functions, closures, exceptions and lets you redefine most internal shell operations. Version: 0.84.
- extension ladder — a ladder that can be made longer by pulling out an extra section
- extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
- extrinsic factor — vitamin B12
- feel constrained — If you feel constrained to do something, you feel that you must do it, even though you would prefer not to.
- figure-conscious — concerned to keep an attractively slim body shape
- fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
- forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
- forensic science — the collection of several fields of science to the purposes of law
- forinsec service — foreign service
- four-dimensional — of a space having points, or a set having elements, which require four coordinates for their unique determination.
- fourth dimension — Physics, Mathematics. a dimension in addition to length, width, and depth, used so as to be able to employ geometrical language in discussing phenomena that depend on four variables: Time is considered a fourth dimension for locating points in space-time.
- francis townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
- french cameroons — Cameroun (def 2).
- fuel consumption — use of a material to generate power
- funeral expenses — Funeral expenses are the costs of organizing and carrying out a funeral.
- general expenses — miscellaneous expenses
- general sessions — a court of general jurisdiction in criminal cases in some U.S. states.
- gird one's loins — Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
- goods in transit — articles that are in the process of being carried by vehicle from one place to another
- hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
- hansen's disease — leprosy.
- happenstantially — (rare) By happenstance; occurring due to random chance.
- hawaiian gardens — a town in SW California.
- health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health
- health insurance — insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.
- health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
- heart transplant — surgery to replace a patient's heart
- hen-and-chickens — any of several succulent plants that grow in clusters or colonies formed by runners or offshoots, as those of the genera Echeveria and Sempervivum.