13-letter words containing d, e, s, c
- kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
- knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
- ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
- lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
- leave sb cold — If something leaves you cold, it fails to excite or interest you.
- lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
- 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.
- 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.
- locked bowels — constipation.
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
- lysergic acid — a crystalline solid, C 16 H 16 N 2 O 2 , obtained from ergot or synthesized: used in the synthesis of LSD.
- madeira sauce — a savoury sauce made with Madeira wine and served with meat
- magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- 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.
- mastoidectomy — the removal of part of a mastoid process, usually for draining an infection.
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- 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.
- meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- 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.
- melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
- 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.
- merry dancers — the aurora borealis
- methodistical — Methodistic.
- microdiskette — Alternative spelling of micro-diskette.
- middle course — an option or alternative between more extreme alternatives
- middle school — a school intermediate between elementary school and high school, usually encompassing grades five or six through eight.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- miscalculated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalculate.
- miscalibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalibrate.
- misclassified — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
- 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 crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
- molluscicides — Plural form of molluscicide.
- mollycoddlers — Plural form of mollycoddler.
- monochlorides — Plural form of monochloride.
- morris dancer — A morris dancer is a person who takes part in morris dancing.
- neglectedness — the state or quality of being neglected