13-letter words containing c, e, d
- 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
- lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
- leading block — lead block.
- leave sb cold — If something leaves you cold, it fails to excite or interest you.
- lepidocrocite — a ruby-red to reddish-brown orthorhombic mineral, iron oxyhydroxide, FeO(OH), dimorphous with goethite: an ore of iron, used as a pigment.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- leucodepleted — of or denoting blood from which the white cells have been removed
- lexical order — the arrangement of a set of items in accordance with a recursive algorithm, such as the entries in a dictionary whose order depends on their first letter unless these are the same in which case it is the second which decides, and so on
- lichenic acid — fumaric acid.
- lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
- lines of code — (programming, unit) (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
- 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.
- load the dice — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- locked bowels — constipation.
- lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
- london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
- lord advocate — (in Scotland) the chief law officer of the Crown who acts as public prosecutor and is in charge of the administration of criminal justice
- lucid dreamer — a person who has lucid dreams, either naturally or as a result of training
- ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
- lymphoid cell — a cell in the lymph glands that produces leukocytes.
- lysergic acid — a crystalline solid, C 16 H 16 N 2 O 2 , obtained from ergot or synthesized: used in the synthesis of LSD.
- machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
- madeira sauce — a savoury sauce made with Madeira wine and served with meat
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- marmalade cat — a cat that is streaked orange or yellow and brown in colour
- mastoidectomy — the removal of part of a mastoid process, usually for draining an infection.
- matched order — an order placed with a broker to buy a specified stock at a price above the market price with the intention of immediately selling the stock through another broker at the same price. It is designed to give the appearance of active trading in the stock.
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- 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.
- meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
- medical audit — a review of the professional standards of doctors, usually within a hospital, conducted by a medical committee
- medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- medicine ball — a large, solid, heavy, leather-covered ball, thrown from one person to another for exercise.
- medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
- medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.