13-letter words containing d, i, s, l, e, a
- indispensable — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
- indispensably — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
- indissociable — Unable to be dissociated.
- indissolvable — Not dissolvable; incapable of being dissolved or separated.
- indissuadable — incapable of being dissuaded
- individualise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of individualize.
- industrialise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of industrialize.
- industrialize — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
- intermodalism — pertaining to or suitable for transportation involving more than one form of carrier, as truck and rail, or truck, ship, and rail.
- interpleaders — Plural form of interpleader.
- intersidereal — interstellar
- irredeemables — undated government or debenture stock
- isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
- judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
- judicial sale — a forced sale of property authorized or required by a court of law in order to satisfy a debt etc
- kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
- kiss-and-tell — revealing sth private for money
- 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.
- land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
- landfill site — also landfill
- landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
- landing speed — the minimum air speed at which an aircraft lands safely
- landing stage — a floating platform used as a wharf.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- lantern slide — a slide or transparency for projection by a slide projector or magic lantern.
- leading reins — straps or a harness and strap used to assist and control a child who is learning to walk
- legal adviser — a lawyer who gives advice
- lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
- libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
- like sardines — very closely crowded together
- liquid assets — assets in the form of money or easily convertible into money
- 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.
- 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-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.
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
- lysergic acid — a crystalline solid, C 16 H 16 N 2 O 2 , obtained from ergot or synthesized: used in the synthesis of LSD.
- 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.
- maladminister — to administer or manage badly or inefficiently: The mayor was a bungler who maladministered the city budget.
- maladroitness — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
- melodramatist — A writer of melodramas.
- mercer island — a city in W central Washington, on Mercer Island in Lake Washington, east of Seattle.
- methodistical — Methodistic.
- middle states — those eastern states between the New England states and the South; New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland
- milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
- mills grenade — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).