13-letter words containing d, e, c, n
- landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
- 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
- leading block — lead block.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- lichenic acid — fumaric acid.
- 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.
- london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
- machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- mendes-france — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1907–1982, French statesman and economist: premier 1954–55.
- mercer island — a city in W central Washington, on Mercer Island in Lake Washington, east of Seattle.
- merchandisers — Plural form of merchandiser.
- merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
- merry dancers — the aurora borealis
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- method acting — film, theater: acting approach
- micr encoding — The MICR encoding of a check is the magnetic ink pattern at the bottom that can be scanned and that contains information about the check.
- mid wicket on — mid on.
- middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
- middle-income — of or relating to those with an average income within the overall population.
- mine detector — an electromagnetic device for locating buried or concealed land mines.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- miscoordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- miscounselled — having bad or incorrect counselling
- mispronounced — Said wrongly.
- misrecognized — Simple past tense and past participle of misrecognize.
- mixed economy — an economy in which there are elements of both public and private enterprise.
- mock pendulum — a false pendulum bob attached to the balances of certain timepieces and visible through a slot in the dial or case.