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13-letter words containing d, e, h, i

  • john endicott — John, Endecott, John.
  • judah ha-levi — (Judah ben Samuel Halevi) 1085–1140, Spanish rabbi, physician, poet, and philosopher.
  • judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
  • kidney-shaped — having the general shape of a long oval indented at one side; reniform: a kidney-shaped swimming pool.
  • kindheartedly — In a kindhearted manner.
  • kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
  • kitchen-diner — a kitchen that has an area intended to be used for eating meals, usually because there is no dining room elsewhere
  • l-head engine — an internal-combustion engine having the intake and exhaust valves arranged in a chamber along one side of the pistons.
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • leading light — an important or influential person: a leading light of the community.
  • legal holiday — a public holiday established by law, during which certain work, government business, etc., is restricted.
  • let sth slide — If you let something slide, you allow it to get into a worse state or condition by not attending to it.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • lichenic acid — fumaric acid.
  • lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
  • light-hearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • lightheadedly — In a lightheaded manner.
  • 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.
  • lithium oxide — a white powder, Li 2 O, with strong alkaline properties: used in ceramics and glass.
  • load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
  • load the dice — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
  • load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
  • lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.
  • lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
  • lymphoid cell — a cell in the lymph glands that produces leukocytes.
  • machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
  • magnetic head — head (def 33).
  • maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
  • mannheim gold — a brass alloy used to imitate gold; red brass.
  • marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
  • 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.
  • merchandisers — Plural form of merchandiser.
  • merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
  • metanephridia — Plural form of metanephridium.
  • method acting — film, theater: acting approach
  • methodistical — Methodistic.
  • methodization — The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.
  • methodologies — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
  • methodologist — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
  • meths drinker — a person who drinks methylated spirits
  • middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
  • middle school — a school intermediate between elementary school and high school, usually encompassing grades five or six through eight.
  • middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
  • middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
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