13-letter words containing a, d, o, l, e
- benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
- benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
- beyond recall — If something is beyond recall, it is no longer possible to remember how it was or to bring it back to its original condition.
- bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
- biodegradable — Something that is biodegradable breaks down or decays naturally without any special scientific treatment, and can therefore be thrown away without causing pollution.
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- blood sausage — a kind of black sausage made from minced pork fat, pig's blood, and other ingredients
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- bloody caesar — a drink consisting of vodka, juice made from clams and tomatoes, and usually Worcester sauce and hot pepper sauce
- bloomfieldian — Linguistics. influenced by, resembling, or deriving from the linguistic theory and the methods of linguistic analysis advocated by Leonard Bloomfield, characterized especially by emphasis on the classification of overt formal features.
- bobby dazzler — a person or thing that is outstanding or excellent.
- bobby-dazzler — anything outstanding, striking, or showy, esp an attractive girl
- body language — Your body language is the way in which you show your feelings or thoughts to other people by means of the position or movements of your body, rather than with words.
- bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
- border patrol — a government agency in charge of preventing terrorists, weapons, and illegal immigrants entering the country
- bottled water — water sold in bottles
- bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
- boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
- brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
- breech-loader — a firearm that is loaded at the breech
- breechloading — loaded at the breech.
- bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
- broadly based — Something that is broadly based involves many different kinds of things or people.
- bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
- bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
- calcium oxide — a white crystalline base used in the production of calcium hydroxide and bleaching powder and in the manufacture of glass, paper, and steel. Formula: CaO
- calcium-oxide — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- call to order — to request to be quiet, as to start (a meeting)
- candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
- cape coloured — (formerly, in South Africa) a racial classification under apartheid for people of mixed ethnic origin
- cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
- capello index — a player rating website backed by Fabio Capello in which marks are awarded to football players in the top teams according to their performance in key skills of the game
- card walloper — (jargon) An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
- cardiomegalia — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
- castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
- cedarwood oil — an aromatic oil obtained from the wood of the red cedar and used in the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, and insecticides.
- cephalopodous — of, belonging to or relating to a cephalopod
- cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
- chiloe island — an island administered by Chile, off the W coast of South America in the Pacific Ocean: timber. Pop: 154 775 (2002, Chiloé province). Area: 8394 sq km (3240 sq miles)
- chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
- clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
- close at hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- close-at-hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- closed season — The closed season is the period of the year when it is prohibited to kill certain types of animal or fish.
- closed stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is positioned closer to the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
- clotted cream — Clotted cream is very thick cream made by heating milk gently and taking the cream off the top. It is made mainly in the south west of England.
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track