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

  • lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
  • 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
  • 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
  • lizard orchid — a European orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum, rare in Britain, having a spike of grey-green flowers smelling of goats
  • london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
  • 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
  • ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
  • macrodiagonal — the longer of two diagonals
  • 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.
  • many-coloured — having many colours
  • medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
  • melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
  • middle course — an option or alternative between more extreme alternatives
  • milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
  • mitochondrial — (cytology) Of, or relating to mitochondria.
  • mollycoddlers — Plural form of mollycoddler.
  • monochlorides — Plural form of monochloride.
  • monoglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of one hydroxyl group with a fatty acid.
  • multi-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • multicoloured — Alternative spelling of multicolored.
  • nitrolic acid — any of several weak acids formed when nitrous acid reacts with a nitroparaffin
  • non-credulous — marked by or arising from credulity: a credulous rumor.
  • non-juridical — of or relating to the administration of justice.
  • non-reducible — capable of being reduced.
  • noncontrolled — not controlled
  • noncorrodible — (of a metal) not capable of rusting, decaying, or eroding
  • nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
  • nondisclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
  • nonperiodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
  • nonrecordable — Not recordable.
  • 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 provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
  • optical drive — optical disk drive
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
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