13-letter words containing d, l, a, y
- landed gentry — land-owning class
- landing party — a component of a ship's company detached for special duty ashore.
- latitudinally — of or relating to latitude.
- laundry-woman — laundress.
- legal holiday — a public holiday established by law, during which certain work, government business, etc., is restricted.
- 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).
- lightheadedly — In a lightheaded manner.
- linden family — the plant family Tiliaceae, characterized by deciduous trees or shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, fibrous bark, fragrant flowers, and dry, woody fruit, and including the basswood, jute, and linden.
- 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.
- lord's prayer — the, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
- lying-in ward — a room where women were confined in childbirth
- 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.
- madder family — the large plant family Rubiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having simple, opposite, or whorled leaves, usually four- or five-lobed flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or nut, and including the gardenia, madder, partridgeberry, and shrubs and trees that are the source of coffee, ipecac, and quinine.
- magdalena bay — a bay in NW Mexico, on the SW coast of Baja California. 17 miles (27 km) long; 12 miles (19 km) wide.
- maldeployment — the inefficient use of resources or an instance of such
- malted barley — barley that has been kiln-dried after it has germinated by soaking in water
- mammary gland — any of the compound accessory reproductive organs of female mammals that occur in pairs on the chest or ventral surface and contain milk-producing lobes with ducts that empty into an external nipple, becoming functional when young are born and secreting milk for the duration of suckling.
- many-coloured — having many colours
- mealy-mouthed — avoiding the use of direct and plain language, as from timidity, excessive delicacy, or hypocrisy; inclined to mince words; insincere, devious, or compromising.
- medullary ray — (in the stems of woody plants) one of the vertical bands or plates of unspecialized tissue that radiate between the pith and the bark.
- meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
- military band — a musical band, usually made up of players of wind, percussion and some brass instruments, that play at military functions, etc
- milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
- mixed ability — A mixed ability class or teaching system is one in which pupils of different abilities are taught together in the same class.
- mixed crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
- model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
- modesty panel — a panel across the front of a desk, especially an office desk, designed to conceal the legs of a person seated at it.
- modifiability — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- monodactylous — having only one digit or claw.
- multimodality — the quality or state of being modal.
- naval academy — a collegiate institution for training naval officers.
- nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
- nondialyzable — not dialyzable or capable of undergoing dialysis
- nonmyelinated — (of nerve fibres) lacking a myelin sheath
- oak-apple day — (in Britain) May 29, the anniversary of the Restoration (1660), formerly commemorated by the wearing of oak apples or oak leaves, recalling the Boscobel oak in which Charles II hid after the battle of Worcester
- old and young — people of all ages
- openheartedly — Alt form open-heartedly.
- opinionatedly — In an opinionated manner.
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- ordinary loss — An ordinary loss is a loss in the course of normal business.
- outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- paleopedology — the branch of pedology dealing with the soils of past geologic ages.
- paradoxically — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- parry islands — former name of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.
- partly cloudy — sky: not constantly clear
- party-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- payday lender — a person or group that offers short-term loans, in advance of payday, at high rates of interest
- pedagogically — of or relating to a pedagogue or pedagogy.