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13-letter words containing c, l, a, d

  • indissociable — Unable to be dissociated.
  • indissociably — In a way that does not allow dissociation; having an inextricable link.
  • ineducability — Inability to be educated.
  • interchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • intercondylar — Anatomy. the smooth surface area at the end of a bone, forming part of a joint.
  • intoxicatedly — In an intoxicated fashion; drunkenly.
  • invalid chair — a chair specially designed for an invalid to sit in
  • jacquard loom — a loom for producing elaborate designs in an intricate weave (Jacquard weave) constructed from a variety of basic weaves.
  • judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
  • 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.
  • judicial sale — a forced sale of property authorized or required by a court of law in order to satisfy a debt etc
  • juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
  • kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
  • kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
  • kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
  • knuckleheaded — Stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.
  • labrador duck — an extinct sea duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius, of northern North America, having black and white plumage.
  • lacedaemonian — of or relating to ancient Sparta; Spartan.
  • lackadaisical — without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic: a lackadaisical attempt.
  • lacrimal duct — either of two small ducts extending from the inner corner of each eyelid to the lacrimal sac.
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
  • lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • land contract — a contract for the purchase and sale of land.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • lizard orchid — a European orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum, rare in Britain, having a spike of grey-green flowers smelling of goats
  • load the dice — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
  • long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
  • 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
  • lysergic acid — a crystalline solid, C 16 H 16 N 2 O 2 , obtained from ergot or synthesized: used in the synthesis of LSD.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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