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13-letter words containing a, n, d, e, c

  • intoxicatedly — In an intoxicated fashion; drunkenly.
  • judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
  • juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
  • kangaroo code — spaghetti code
  • knuckleheaded — Stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.
  • lacedaemonian — of or relating to ancient Sparta; Spartan.
  • ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • language code — (human language, standard)   A set of standard names and abbreviations maintained by ISO for identifying human languages, natural and invented, past and present. Each language has a list of English and French names and an ISO 639-2 three-letter code. Some also have an ISO 639-1 two-letter code. The list even includes the Klingon language from the Star Trek science fiction series. There are also country codes.
  • latent defect — hidden fault, undiscovered flaw
  • leading block — lead block.
  • lichenic acid — fumaric acid.
  • linoleic acid — an unsaturated fatty acid, C 18 H 32 O 2 , occurring as a glyceride in drying oils, as in linseed oil.
  • list enhanced — (operating system, tool)   An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
  • long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
  • machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
  • magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • magnetic head — head (def 33).
  • magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
  • maiden castle — an ancient fortification in Dorsetshire, England, first erected c250 b.c. over the remains of Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements of c2000–c1500 b.c.
  • maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • malleoincudal — Of or relating to both the malleus and the incus.
  • many-coloured — having many colours
  • mean distance — the arithmetic mean of the greatest and least distances of a planet from the sun, used in stating the size of an orbit; the semimajor axis.
  • medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
  • medicine ball — a large, solid, heavy, leather-covered ball, thrown from one person to another for exercise.
  • mendes-france — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1907–1982, French statesman and economist: premier 1954–55.
  • mercer island — a city in W central Washington, on Mercer Island in Lake Washington, east of Seattle.
  • merchandisers — Plural form of merchandiser.
  • merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
  • merry dancers — the aurora borealis
  • metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
  • method acting — film, theater: acting approach
  • misadvertence — inadvertence
  • miscoordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • monochromated — Fitted with a monochromator.
  • mononucleated — having a single nucleus
  • mood enhancer — something, esp a drug, that has the effect of lifting a person's mood
  • morris dancer — A morris dancer is a person who takes part in morris dancing.
  • much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • mundificative — a cleansing medicine or preparation
  • municipalized — Simple past tense and past participle of municipalize.
  • naval academy — a collegiate institution for training naval officers.
  • neck and crop — completely; entirely
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