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13-letter words containing d, r, e, s, i, l

  • indiscernibly — In a way that cannot be discerned.
  • indiscerpible — (obsolete) Not discerpible; inseparable.
  • industrialise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of industrialize.
  • industrialize — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
  • intermodalism — pertaining to or suitable for transportation involving more than one form of carrier, as truck and rail, or truck, ship, and rail.
  • interpleaders — Plural form of interpleader.
  • intersidereal — interstellar
  • irredeemables — undated government or debenture stock
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
  • land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
  • landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • lantern slide — a slide or transparency for projection by a slide projector or magic lantern.
  • leading reins — straps or a harness and strap used to assist and control a child who is learning to walk
  • legal adviser — a lawyer who gives advice
  • lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
  • lepidopterist — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
  • lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
  • libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
  • like sardines — very closely crowded together
  • ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
  • lysergic acid — a crystalline solid, C 16 H 16 N 2 O 2 , obtained from ergot or synthesized: used in the synthesis of LSD.
  • maladminister — to administer or manage badly or inefficiently: The mayor was a bungler who maladministered the city budget.
  • maladroitness — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
  • melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
  • melodramatist — A writer of melodramas.
  • mercer island — a city in W central Washington, on Mercer Island in Lake Washington, east of Seattle.
  • middle course — an option or alternative between more extreme alternatives
  • middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
  • midterm blues — the tendency of electorate to grow disillusioned with government around halfway through its term of office
  • mills grenade — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
  • milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
  • miscalibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalibrate.
  • mistranslated — Simple past tense and past participle of mistranslate.
  • mixed crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
  • monochlorides — Plural form of monochloride.
  • mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
  • mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
  • multistranded — having several strands
  • nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
  • niggardliness — The state of being niggardly.
  • nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
  • nondisclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
  • odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
  • off-side rule — A lexical convention due to Landin, allowing the scope of declarations in a program to be expressed by indentation. Any non-whitespace token to the left of the first such token on the previous line is taken to be the start of a new declaration. Used in, for example, Miranda and Haskell.
  • officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
  • old ironsides — the U.S. frigate Constitution (used as a nickname).
  • ordinal scale — a scale on which data is shown simply in order of magnitude since there is no standard of measurement of differences: for instance, a squash ladder is an ordinal scale since one can say only that one person is better than another, but not by how much
  • orsellic acid — an acid found in lichens
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