13-letter words containing c, a, n, d, i, l
- 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 craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
- launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- 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.
- macrodiagonal — the longer of two diagonals
- 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.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- malleoincudal — Of or relating to both the malleus and the incus.
- medicine ball — a large, solid, heavy, leather-covered ball, thrown from one person to another for exercise.
- mercer island — a city in W central Washington, on Mercer Island in Lake Washington, east of Seattle.
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- mitochondrial — (cytology) Of, or relating to mitochondria.
- 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.
- multiplicands — Plural form of multiplicand.
- municipalized — Simple past tense and past participle of municipalize.
- natural child — Law. an illegitimate child; one born of illicit intercourse. (especially in Louisiana) an illegitimate child who has been lawfully acknowledged by its father.
- new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
- nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
- niçoise salad — salade niçoise
- nitrolic acid — any of several weak acids formed when nitrous acid reacts with a nitroparaffin
- nits-and-lice — a yellow-flowered plant, Hypericum drummondii, of the central U.S.
- nodding lilac — a showy Chinese lilac, Syringa reflexa, of the olive family, having nodding clusters of pinkish flowers.
- nodical month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- non-colloidal — pertaining to or of the nature of a colloid: colloidal gold and silver.
- non-custodial — of or relating to custody.
- non-dialectic — of, relating to, or of the nature of logical argumentation.
- non-euclidean — differing from the postulates of Euclid or based upon postulates other than those of Euclid.
- non-juridical — of or relating to the administration of justice.
- non-medicinal — of, relating to, or having the properties of a medicine; curative; remedial: medicinal properties; medicinal substances.
- nonaccidental — not accidental, intentional
- nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
- noncultivated — relating to natural resources that are not under institutional or managed cultivation
- nondiplomatic — not diplomatic or related to diplomacy
- nonincidental — happening or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate conjunction with something else.
- nonperiodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
- 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.
- occidentalize — to make Occidental.
- odontoblastic — Relating to odontoblasts.
- old icelandic — Old Norse as used in Iceland. Abbreviation: OIcel.
- optical sound — sound recorded on and subsequently played back from an optical or photographic soundtrack, as opposed to a magnetic soundtrack.