13-letter words containing a, d, r, m, e, l
- detrimentally — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
- deuteranomaly — a milder form of deuteranopia; partial deuteranopia
- diametrically — If you say that two things are diametrically opposed, you are emphasizing that they are completely different from each other.
- digital frame — a picture frame containing an LCD screen that is used to display digital photos: Download pictures to your digital frame directly from your camera's memory card.
- digital meter — A digital meter is a meter that gives a separate reading, in the form of a decimal number, for each given input quantity.
- direct-mailer — a person or firm engaged in direct-mail advertising.
- dirty realism — a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
- discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
- documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- dreamlessness — The state or condition of being dreamless; lack of dreams.
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
- electrodermal — Of or relating to measurement of the electrical conductivity of the skin, especially as an indicator of someone’s emotional responses.
- embarrassedly — In an embarrassed manner.
- family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
- family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
- female thread — a helical groove in a cylindrical hole formed by a tap or lathe tool
- field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
- fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
- garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- glamour model — a woman who models topless or nude for photographs
- grand slammer — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
- grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
- haemodialyzer — a piece of equipment used in haemodialysis to screen the blood to remove unwanted substances
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- herbal remedy — a medical treatment made with herbs
- holiday-maker — vacationer.
- holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
- hydrated lime — a soft, white, crystalline, very slightly water-soluble powder, Ca(OH) 2 , obtained by the action of water on lime: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements.
- hydroxylamine — an unstable, weakly basic, crystalline compound, NH 3 O, used as a reducing agent, analytical reagent, and chemical intermediate.
- ideal mixture — An ideal mixture is a mixture in which the concentration of any part taken from it is the same as the average for the whole.
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
- inland empire — a region in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, E of the Cascade Mountains, in E Washington, NE Oregon, N Idaho, and NW Montana.
- intermodalism — pertaining to or suitable for transportation involving more than one form of carrier, as truck and rail, or truck, ship, and rail.
- intradermally — within the dermis.
- irredeemables — undated government or debenture stock
- lady mayoress — the wife of a lord mayor
- lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
- liberalminded — Having a liberal opinion or stance.
- lord temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
- lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
- lucid dreamer — a person who has lucid dreams, either naturally or as a result of training
- madder family — the large plant family Rubiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having simple, opposite, or whorled leaves, usually four- or five-lobed flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or nut, and including the gardenia, madder, partridgeberry, and shrubs and trees that are the source of coffee, ipecac, and quinine.
- mail exploder — (messaging) Part of an electronic mail delivery system which allows a message to be delivered to a list of addresses. Mail exploders are used to implement mailing lists. Users send messages to a single address and the mail exploder takes care of delivery to the individual mailboxes in the list.
- major medical — insurance designed to compensate for particularly large medical expenses due to a severe or prolonged illness, usually by paying a high percentage of medical bills above a certain amount.
- maladminister — to administer or manage badly or inefficiently: The mayor was a bungler who maladministered the city budget.