13-letter words containing d, o, l, h
- methodologist — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- middle school — a school intermediate between elementary school and high school, usually encompassing grades five or six through eight.
- middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- mitochondrial — (cytology) Of, or relating to mitochondria.
- monochlorides — Plural form of monochloride.
- nodical month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- non-scheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- nondetachable — Not capable of being detached.
- norethynodrel — a progestin, C 2 0 H 2 6 O 2 , used in combination with an estrogen in some oral contraceptives.
- north holland — a province in W Netherlands. 1163 sq. mi. (3010 sq. km). Capital: Haarlem.
- north olmsted — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- office-holder — An office-holder is a person who has an important official position in an organization or government.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- oil hardening — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
- old northwest — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.
- old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
- on the double — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- on the fiddle — If someone is on the fiddle, they get money by doing illegal or dishonest things.
- on the needle — a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- openheartedly — Alt form open-heartedly.
- openmouthedly — in a manner filled with amazement and wonder
- orchard valve — an alfalfa valve of lesser diameter than the pipe it closes.
- 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.
- orchidologist — someone who is knowledgeable in orchidology
- orthodiagonal — the axis in a crystal
- orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
- otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
- pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
- patent holder — a person or company that holds a patent
- pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
- philo judaeus — c20 b.c.–a.d. c50, Alexandrian Jewish theologian and philosopher.
- phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
- physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
- plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
- polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
- polyadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three or more sets or bundles.
- pompon dahlia — a cultivated variety of the dahlia flower, with a small globelike flower head
- poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
- pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
- pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- q-methodology — a statistical methodology used by psychologists to identify alternative world-views, opinions, interpretations, etc, in terms of statistically independent patterns of response recognized by clustering together individuals whose orderings of items, typically attitude statements, are similar
- quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
- r-methodology — any statistical methodology in psychology that is contrasted with Q-methodology
- radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- record holder — sb officially recorded as best at sth
- reupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- richmond hill — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, N of Toronto.