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15-letter words containing d, o, l, m

  • immunomodulator — a substance that affects the functioning of the immune system
  • implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
  • imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
  • infundibuliform — having the shape of a funnel; funnel-shaped.
  • intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
  • integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
  • intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
  • intra-abdominal — being within the abdomen.
  • intramyocardial — Into or within the myocardium.
  • isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
  • lambda-b baryon — a protonlike baryon containing a b quark; a neutral baryon with a mass 11,000 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.1 X 10 -12 seconds.
  • lambda-c baryon — a positively charged baryon with a mean lifetime of approximately 2.1 X 10 -13 seconds.
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
  • leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
  • limited edition — an edition, as of a book or lithograph, limited to a specified small number of copies.
  • linear manifold — subspace (def 2b).
  • loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
  • locomotive shed — a shed in which locomotives are kept
  • lomas de zamora — a city in E Argentina, S of Buenos Aires.
  • lombardy poplar — a poplar, Populus nigra italica, having a columnar manner of growth, with branches erect and parallel.
  • look-say method — a method of teaching beginners to read by memorizing and recognizing whole words, rather than by associating letters with sounds
  • lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
  • lymphadenectomy — the excision of one or more lymph nodes, usually as a procedure in the surgical removal or destruction of a cancer.
  • lymphadenopathy — chronically swollen lymph nodes.
  • lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • mail order firm — a company that sells goods by mail order
  • majority leader — the leader of the majority party in a legislative body, especially the party member who directs the activities of the majority party on the floor of either the Senate or the House of Representatives.
  • malappropriated — misused or mishandled
  • maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
  • malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
  • mandarin collar — a narrow, stand-up collar, not quite meeting at the front.
  • marigold window — wheel window.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • medal for merit — a medal awarded by the U.S. to a civilian for distinguished service to the country: discontinued after World War II.
  • medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
  • medical officer — a doctor of medicine who serves in the armed forces in a medical capacity
  • medical records — written information about a person's health during their life to date
  • medical tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
  • medicine bottle — a small bottle used to hold medicine
  • medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
  • medulloblastoma — (oncology) A malignant type of brain tumour that originates in the cerebellum.
  • meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
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