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13-letter words containing d, o, l, a, r

  • boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brand loyalty — the tendency of consumers to continue buying a particular brand instead of trying a different one
  • breech-loader — a firearm that is loaded at the breech
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
  • bridging loan — A bridging loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • bristol board — a heavy smooth cardboard of fine quality, used for printing and drawing
  • broadly based — Something that is broadly based involves many different kinds of things or people.
  • bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
  • cacodyl group — the univalent group (CH 3) 2 As−, derived from arsine.
  • call to order — to request to be quiet, as to start (a meeting)
  • candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
  • cape coloured — (formerly, in South Africa) a racial classification under apartheid for people of mixed ethnic origin
  • cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
  • carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
  • carbolic acid — Carbolic acid or carbolic is a liquid that is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic.
  • carbolic-acid — Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
  • card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
  • card walloper — (jargon)   An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
  • cardiological — the study of the heart and its functions in health and disease.
  • cardiologists — Plural form of cardiologist.
  • cardiomegalia — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
  • cedarwood oil — an aromatic oil obtained from the wood of the red cedar and used in the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
  • chlorous acid — an unstable acid that is a strong oxidizing agent. Formula: HClO2
  • clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
  • clavichordist — Someone who plays the clavichord.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • clotted cream — Clotted cream is very thick cream made by heating milk gently and taking the cream off the top. It is made mainly in the south west of England.
  • cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
  • cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
  • coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
  • coldheartedly — Alternative spelling of cold-heartedly.
  • collared dove — a European dove, Streptopelia decaocto, having a brownish-grey plumage with a black band on the back of the neck
  • college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
  • colorado ruby — a fire-red form of garnet found in Colorado and other parts of North America
  • comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
  • conglomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglomerate.
  • congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • considerately — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
  • consolidators — Plural form of consolidator.
  • constrainedly — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
  • control board — a panel containing switches, dials, and other equipment for regulating electrical devices, lights, etc.
  • cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
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