13-letter words containing d, i, a, p
- indo-european — a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. Compare family (def 14).
- injured party — victim
- inland empire — a region in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, E of the Cascade Mountains, in E Washington, NE Oregon, N Idaho, and NW Montana.
- interpandemic — occurring between two pandemics
- interpellated — Simple past tense and past participle of interpellate.
- interpleaders — Plural form of interpleader.
- interpleading — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
- interpretated — Misspelling of interpreted.
- iopanoic acid — an acid containing iodine that is opaque to X-rays
- isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
- junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
- kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
- kidney-shaped — having the general shape of a long oval indented at one side; reniform: a kidney-shaped swimming pool.
- landing party — a component of a ship's company detached for special duty ashore.
- landing speed — the minimum air speed at which an aircraft lands safely
- landing strip — airstrip.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
- launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
- lipid bilayer — a two-layered arrangement of phosphate and lipid molecules that form a cell membrane, the hydrophobic lipid ends facing inward and the hydrophilic phosphate ends facing outward.
- lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
- macropinacoid — a crystalline pinacoid which runs parallel to the longer horizontal axis
- madeira topaz — citrine (def 2).
- maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
- mail exploder — (messaging) Part of an electronic mail delivery system which allows a message to be delivered to a list of addresses. Mail exploders are used to implement mailing lists. Users send messages to a single address and the mail exploder takes care of delivery to the individual mailboxes in the list.
- maladaptation — incomplete, inadequate, or faulty adaptation.
- married print — composite print.
- mean-spirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- metanephridia — Plural form of metanephridium.
- midday prayer — the fourth of the seven canonical hours; sext
- mindanao deep — an area in the Pacific Ocean W of the Philippines: one of deepest points in any ocean. 34,440 feet (10,497 meters).
- mine disposal — the removal, disarming, or destruction of explosive mines
- mis-explained — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- misapprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend.
- moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
- molding plane — a plane having a blade or a number of blades profiled to form moldings.
- multimedia pc — multimedia
- multiplicands — Plural form of multiplicand.
- multiplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of multiplicate.
- municipalized — Simple past tense and past participle of municipalize.
- name-dropping — the introduction into one's conversation, letters, etc., of the names of famous or important people as alleged friends or associates in order to impress others.
- nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
- nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
- nondiapausing — lacking a diapause
- nondiplomatic — not diplomatic or related to diplomacy