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13-letter words containing d, a, y, l, o

  • laundry-woman — laundress.
  • legal holiday — a public holiday established by law, during which certain work, government business, etc., is restricted.
  • lord's prayer — the, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
  • maldeployment — the inefficient use of resources or an instance of such
  • many-coloured — having many colours
  • mealy-mouthed — avoiding the use of direct and plain language, as from timidity, excessive delicacy, or hypocrisy; inclined to mince words; insincere, devious, or compromising.
  • meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
  • model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
  • modesty panel — a panel across the front of a desk, especially an office desk, designed to conceal the legs of a person seated at it.
  • modifiability — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
  • monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
  • monodactylous — having only one digit or claw.
  • multimodality — the quality or state of being modal.
  • nondialyzable — not dialyzable or capable of undergoing dialysis
  • nonmyelinated — (of nerve fibres) lacking a myelin sheath
  • oak-apple day — (in Britain) May 29, the anniversary of the Restoration (1660), formerly commemorated by the wearing of oak apples or oak leaves, recalling the Boscobel oak in which Charles II hid after the battle of Worcester
  • old and young — people of all ages
  • openheartedly — Alt form open-heartedly.
  • opinionatedly — In an opinionated manner.
  • 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.
  • ordinary loss — An ordinary loss is a loss in the course of normal business.
  • outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • paleopedology — the branch of pedology dealing with the soils of past geologic ages.
  • paradoxically — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
  • 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.
  • peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
  • periodontally — with respect to periodontal tissue
  • perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
  • phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
  • play on words — a pun or the act of punning.
  • plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
  • polyadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three or more sets or bundles.
  • polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
  • polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
  • predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
  • predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
  • radioteletype — Also called radioteletypewriter [rey-dee-oh-tel-i-tahyp-rahy-ter, -tel-i-tahyp-rahy-] /ˌreɪ di oʊˌtɛl ɪˈtaɪpˌraɪ tər, -ˈtɛl ɪ taɪpˌraɪ-/ (Show IPA). a teletypewriter equipped for transmitting or receiving messages by radio instead of wire.
  • recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
  • record player — phonograph.
  • roman holiday — a public spectacle or controversy marked by barbarism, vindictiveness, or scandal.
  • royal academy — a society founded in 1768 by George III of England for the establishment of a school of design and the holding of an annual exhibition of the works of living artists.
  • scotland yard — a short street in central London, England: formerly the site of the London police headquarters, which were removed 1890 to a Thames embankment (New Scotland Yard, ).
  • self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
  • shetland pony — one of a breed of small but sturdy, rough-coated ponies, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • sodomitically — in a sodomitical manner
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • sound library — a collection of sounds stored on file (for example on CDs, DVDs, or as digital audio files)
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