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13-letter words containing a, d, o, l

  • novated lease — Australian system of employer-aided car purchase
  • nucleocapsids — Plural form of nucleocapsid.
  • null and void — without value, effect, consequence, or significance.
  • oak-apple day — (in Britain) May 29, the anniversary of the Restoration (1660), formerly commemorated by the wearing of oak apples or oak leaves, recalling the Boscobel oak in which Charles II hid after the battle of Worcester
  • occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
  • occidentalize — to make Occidental.
  • odontoblastic — Relating to odontoblasts.
  • oil hardening — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
  • oil-based mud — Oil-based mud is a drilling fluid that is an emulsion containing oil as the base fluid.
  • old and young — people of all ages
  • old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
  • old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
  • old icelandic — Old Norse as used in Iceland. Abbreviation: OIcel.
  • old man river — a name for the Mississippi River
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
  • old ritualist — Raskolnik.
  • old stone age — the Paleolithic period.
  • old testament — the first of the two main divisions of the Christian Bible, comprising the Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa. In the Vulgate translation all but two books of the Apocrypha are included in the Old Testament.
  • old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
  • olduvai gorge — a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
  • onondaga lake — salt lake northwest of Syracuse, N.Y.: c. 5 sq mi (13 sq km)
  • openheartedly — Alt form open-heartedly.
  • opinionatedly — In an opinionated manner.
  • 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.
  • orbital index — the ratio of the maximum breadth to the maximum height of the orbital cavity multiplied by 100.
  • 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
  • ordinary loss — An ordinary loss is a loss in the course of normal business.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • orlando lasso — Orlando di [dee] /di/ (Show IPA), (Orlandus Lassus) 1532–94, Flemish composer.
  • orsellic acid — an acid found in lichens
  • orthodiagonal — the axis in a crystal
  • orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
  • ottawa euclid — Euclid
  • outgeneralled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
  • outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • over-detailed — having many details: a detailed problem.
  • over-idealize — to make ideal; represent in an ideal form or character; exalt to an ideal perfection or excellence.
  • overallocated — Allocated in excess.
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • overland mail — a government mail service, started in 1848, for sending mail from the Mississippi to the Far West.
  • overland park — a town in E Kansas, near Kansas City.
  • overleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively high ratio of debt capital to equity capital
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • overpopulated — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
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