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

  • liquid storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
  • lizard orchid — a European orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum, rare in Britain, having a spike of grey-green flowers smelling of goats
  • look ahead lr — Look Ahead Left-to-right parse, Rightmost-derivation
  • loose forward — one of a number of forwards who play at the back or sides of the scrum and who are not bound wholly into it
  • lord advocate — (in Scotland) the chief law officer of the Crown who acts as public prosecutor and is in charge of the administration of criminal justice
  • lord temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
  • lord's prayerthe, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
  • losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
  • loss adjuster — A loss adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money should be paid to a person making a claim.
  • lounge around — to pass time idly and indolently.
  • lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
  • lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
  • macrodiagonal — the longer of two diagonals
  • 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.
  • major medical — insurance designed to compensate for particularly large medical expenses due to a severe or prolonged illness, usually by paying a high percentage of medical bills above a certain amount.
  • maladroitness — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
  • mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
  • many-coloured — having many colours
  • marmalade box — genipap.
  • 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
  • medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
  • melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
  • melodramatist — A writer of melodramas.
  • melodramatize — to make melodramatic.
  • meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
  • 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.
  • mid glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 393 sq. mi. (1019 sq. km).
  • milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
  • mitochondrial — (cytology) Of, or relating to mitochondria.
  • model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
  • moderate gale — a wind of 32–38 miles per hour (14–17 m/sec).
  • modula-prolog — Adds a Prolog layer to Modula-2. "Modula-Prolog: A Software Development Tool", C. Muller IEEE Software pp.39-45 (Nov 1986).
  • molding board — a board upon which bread is kneaded, cookies prepared, etc.
  • moll flanders — (The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders) a novel (1722) by Daniel Defoe.
  • mood-altering — (especially of drugs) capable of changing one's emotional state.
  • muzzle-loader — a firearm that is loaded through the muzzle.
  • muzzleloaders — Plural form of muzzleloader.
  • national grid — a network of high-voltage power lines connecting major power stations
  • nitrolic acid — any of several weak acids formed when nitrous acid reacts with a nitroparaffin
  • non-editorial — of or relating to the commissioning or compiling of content for publication, or to a person who does such work: editorial policies; editorial skills.
  • non-juridical — of or relating to the administration of justice.
  • nondeferrable — Not deferrable.
  • nondegradable — not subject to or capable of degradation or decomposition: nondegradable waste.
  • nondeliberate — not deliberate or intentional
  • nonfraudulent — Not fraudulent.
  • nonindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • nonperiodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
  • nonrecordable — Not recordable.
  • nonrefundable — an amount refunded.
  • noradrenaline — norepinephrine.
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