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

  • marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
  • material mode — the normal use of language that refers to extra-linguistic subjects without explicit mention of the words themselves. Fido is a dog is in the material mode, while "Fido" is a dog's name is in the formal mode
  • maxillodental — Relating to the jaw and teeth.
  • maximal ideal — an ideal in a ring that is not included in any other ideal except the ring itself.
  • mean latitude — the latitude of the point that is midway between two parallels on the same side of the equator.
  • medical audit — a review of the professional standards of doctors, usually within a hospital, conducted by a medical committee
  • medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
  • medicine ball — a large, solid, heavy, leather-covered ball, thrown from one person to another for exercise.
  • melodiousness — The property of being melodious.
  • melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
  • melodramatist — A writer of melodramas.
  • melodramatize — to make melodramatic.
  • mercer island — a city in W central Washington, on Mercer Island in Lake Washington, east of Seattle.
  • mercurialized — Simple past tense and past participle of mercurialize.
  • meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
  • mesityl oxide — an oily, colorless liquid, C 6 H 1 0 O, having a honeylike odor: used chiefly as a solvent and in the manufacture of synthetic organic compounds.
  • metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
  • metatoluidine — a colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 9 N, the meta isomer of toluidine, used in the manufacture of dyes and other organic compounds.
  • methodistical — Methodistic.
  • 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.
  • metronidazole — a synthetic antimicrobial substance, C 6 H 9 N 3 O 3 , used chiefly in the treatment of infections, such as Trichomonas vaginalis and certain anaerobic bacterial infections.
  • middle comedy — Greek Attic comedy of the 4th century b.c. The few extant fragments are characterized chiefly by a realistic depiction of everyday life.
  • middle course — an option or alternative between more extreme alternatives
  • middle finger — the finger between the forefinger and the third finger.
  • middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
  • middle ground — an intermediate position, area, or recourse between two opposites or extremes; a halfway or neutral standpoint.
  • middle school — a school intermediate between elementary school and high school, usually encompassing grades five or six through eight.
  • middle states — those eastern states between the New England states and the South; New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland
  • middle temple — an edifice or place dedicated to the service or worship of a deity or deities.
  • middle-endian — (data, architecture)   Neither big-endian nor little-endian. Used of perverse byte orders such as 3-4-1-2 or 2-1-4-3, occasionally found in the packed decimal formats of some minicomputer manufacturers. See -endian.
  • middle-income — of or relating to those with an average income within the overall population.
  • middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
  • middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
  • middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
  • middleweights — Plural form of middleweight.
  • midnight blue — Something that is midnight blue is a very dark blue colour, almost black.
  • midriff bulge — a roll of fat around your midriff
  • midterm blues — the tendency of electorate to grow disillusioned with government around halfway through its term of office
  • mild-mannered — If you describe someone as mild-mannered, you approve of them because they are gentle, kind, and polite.
  • milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
  • milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
  • millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
  • milledgeville — a city in central Georgia: state capital 1807–68.
  • mills grenade — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
  • milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
  • mind-altering — causing marked changes in patterns of mood and behavior, as a hallucinogenic drug.
  • mindblindness — The inability to deduce or make educated guesses about another person's mental state.
  • 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.
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