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14-letter words containing d, o, t, a, l

  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • height of land — a watershed
  • helicopter dad — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
  • helicopter pad — landing area
  • hold to ransom — to keep (prisoners, property, etc) in confinement until payment for their release is made or received
  • holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
  • hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
  • hospital drama — a TV programme or series based on events in a hospital
  • household arts — activities such as sewing, cooking, etc, that are conducted in the running of a household
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hydrolytically — By means of hydrolysis.
  • hydrothermally — By hydrothermal means.
  • hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
  • idiopathically — In an idiopathic sense or manner.
  • idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
  • immethodically — Unmethodically.
  • indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indiana ballot — a ballot on which the candidates are listed in separate columns by party.
  • indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
  • indomitability — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
  • intraabdominal — Within the cavity of the abdomen.
  • irrationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of irrationalise.
  • isodiametrical — isodiametric
  • isolated point — Mathematics. a point in a set such that the neighborhood of the point is devoid of any other points belonging to the set.
  • isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
  • jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
  • kedleston hall — a mansion near Derby in Derbyshire: rebuilt (1759–65) for the Curzon family by Matthew Brettingham, James Paine, and Robert Adam
  • labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
  • labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • late developer — someone, esp a teenager, who matures physically or emotionally at an older age than considered usual
  • latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
  • lattice window — a window formed of an open framework of wood, metal, etc, arranged to form an ornamental pattern
  • lead carbonate — a white crystalline compound, PbCO 3 , toxic when inhaled, insoluble in water and alcohol: used as an exterior paint pigment.
  • leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
  • lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
  • leptodactylous — having slender toes or fingers.
  • linkage editor — linker
  • linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
  • liquidationist — pertaining to or promoting a theory of economics which holds that governments should not interfere in a recession
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • llano estacado — a large plateau in the SW United States, in W Texas and SE New Mexico: cattle-grazing region. About 1000–5000 feet (300–1500 meters) above sea level.
  • lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
  • long drawn out — A long drawn out process or conflict lasts an unnecessarily long time or an unpleasantly long time.
  • long-drawn-out — lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.
  • longitudinally — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
  • lord baltimore — David, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
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