13-letter words containing a, d, l, o, c
- non-dialectic — of, relating to, or of the nature of logical argumentation.
- non-euclidean — differing from the postulates of Euclid or based upon postulates other than those of Euclid.
- non-juridical — of or relating to the administration of justice.
- non-medicinal — of, relating to, or having the properties of a medicine; curative; remedial: medicinal properties; medicinal substances.
- nonaccidental — not accidental, intentional
- nonadolescent — Not adolescent.
- nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
- noncultivated — relating to natural resources that are not under institutional or managed cultivation
- nondetachable — Not capable of being detached.
- nondiplomatic — not diplomatic or related to diplomacy
- nonincidental — happening or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate conjunction with something else.
- nonperiodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
- nonrecordable — Not recordable.
- nonscandalous — Not scandalous.
- nucleocapsids — Plural form of nucleocapsid.
- occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
- occidentalize — to make Occidental.
- odontoblastic — Relating to odontoblasts.
- old icelandic — Old Norse as used in Iceland. Abbreviation: OIcel.
- old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
- optical drive — optical disk drive
- optical sound — sound recorded on and subsequently played back from an optical or photographic soundtrack, as opposed to a magnetic soundtrack.
- optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
- orchard valve — an alfalfa valve of lesser diameter than the pipe it closes.
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- ordinal scale — a scale on which data is shown simply in order of magnitude since there is no standard of measurement of differences: for instance, a squash ladder is an ordinal scale since one can say only that one person is better than another, but not by how much
- orsellic acid — an acid found in lichens
- orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
- ottawa euclid — Euclid
- overallocated — Allocated in excess.
- pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
- pandiculation — the act of stretching oneself.
- paradoxically — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- parti-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
- partly cloudy — sky: not constantly clear
- party-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- pedagogically — of or relating to a pedagogue or pedagogy.
- pedicellation — having a pedicel or pedicels.
- peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
- periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
- perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
- phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
- pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
- plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
- politicalized — to cause to be political; color with politics.
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- pseudo-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- pseudoclassic — falsely or spuriously classic.
- public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.