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

  • office-holder — An office-holder is a person who has an important official position in an organization or government.
  • officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
  • old icelandic — Old Norse as used in Iceland. Abbreviation: OIcel.
  • old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
  • on cloud nine — blissfully happy
  • optical drive — optical disk drive
  • optical sound — sound recorded on and subsequently played back from an optical or photographic soundtrack, as opposed to a magnetic soundtrack.
  • optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
  • orchard valve — an alfalfa valve of lesser diameter than the pipe it closes.
  • orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
  • orchidologist — someone who is knowledgeable in orchidology
  • 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
  • orsellic acid — an acid found in lichens
  • orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
  • ottawa euclid — Euclid
  • overallocated — Allocated in excess.
  • overcivilized — excessively civilized
  • overcredulity — Excessive credulity.
  • overcredulous — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
  • pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
  • pandiculation — the act of stretching oneself.
  • paradoxically — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
  • parti-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
  • particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
  • partly cloudy — sky: not constantly clear
  • party-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
  • pedagogically — of or relating to a pedagogue or pedagogy.
  • pedicellation — having a pedicel or pedicels.
  • peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
  • periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
  • perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
  • phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
  • physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
  • pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
  • plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
  • police record — an official file, held by the police, containing details of any criminal offences committed by an individual
  • polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
  • politicalized — to cause to be political; color with politics.
  • polycotyledon — a plant having more than two cotyledons, as certain gymnosperms.
  • ponce de leonJuan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1460–1521, Spanish explorer.
  • pre-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • producibility — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • pseudo-colour — an artificial colour
  • pseudo-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
  • pseudoclassic — falsely or spuriously classic.
  • public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
  • quadrilocular — having four compartments
  • quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
  • quindecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 48 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 90 zeros.
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