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13-letter words containing a, n, d, e, s, l

  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • lantern slide — a slide or transparency for projection by a slide projector or magic lantern.
  • last judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • lead arsenate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, highly poisonous powder, PbHAsO 4 , used as an insecticide.
  • leading reins — straps or a harness and strap used to assist and control a child who is learning to walk
  • lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
  • less and less — to a progressively smaller degree
  • libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
  • like sardines — very closely crowded together
  • 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.
  • load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
  • load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
  • long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
  • lonsdale belt — (in Britain) a belt conferred as a trophy on professional boxing champions, in various weight categories: if a champion wins it three times it becomes his personal property
  • lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
  • 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.
  • maladjustment — bad or unsatisfactory adjustment.
  • maladminister — to administer or manage badly or inefficiently: The mayor was a bungler who maladministered the city budget.
  • maladroitness — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
  • mendel's laws — law of segregation.
  • mercer island — a city in W central Washington, on Mercer Island in Lake Washington, east of Seattle.
  • mills grenade — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
  • milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
  • mine disposal — the removal, disarming, or destruction of explosive mines
  • mis-explained — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
  • mistranslated — Simple past tense and past participle of mistranslate.
  • modesty panel — a panel across the front of a desk, especially an office desk, designed to conceal the legs of a person seated at it.
  • moll flanders — (The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders) a novel (1722) by Daniel Defoe.
  • monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
  • multistranded — having several strands
  • nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
  • niçoise salad — salade niçoise
  • niggardliness — The state of being niggardly.
  • nits-and-lice — a yellow-flowered plant, Hypericum drummondii, of the central U.S.
  • nonadolescent — Not adolescent.
  • nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • nondisposable — Not disposable.
  • novated lease — Australian system of employer-aided car purchase
  • nucleic acids — any of a group of long, linear macromolecules, either DNA or various types of RNA, that carry genetic information directing all cellular functions: composed of linked nucleotides.
  • nucleocapsids — Plural form of nucleocapsid.
  • occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • paddle tennis — a game combining elements of tennis and handball, played with paddles and a rubber ball on a screened court about half the size of and having a lower net than a tennis court.
  • pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
  • passchendaele — a village in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: the scene of heavy fighting during the third battle of Ypres in World War I during which 245 000 British troops were lost
  • pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
  • polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
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