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13-letter words containing d, r, i, p, l

  • epidermolysis — Loosening of the epidermis, with extensive blistering of the skin and mucous membranes, occurring either after injury, or as a spontaneous and potentially dangerous condition, particularly in children.
  • epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
  • gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
  • highland park — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan.
  • hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
  • hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
  • hydropathical — Alternative form of hydropathic.
  • hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
  • hyperdactylia — the presence of extra fingers or toes.
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • hyperlordosis — Particularly severe lordosis.
  • ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
  • imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
  • impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
  • improvidently — In an improvident manner.
  • indiscerpible — (obsolete) Not discerpible; inseparable.
  • inland empire — a region in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, E of the Cascade Mountains, in E Washington, NE Oregon, N Idaho, and NW Montana.
  • interpellated — Simple past tense and past participle of interpellate.
  • interpleaders — Plural form of interpleader.
  • interpleading — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
  • interruptedly — In an interrupted manner.
  • landing party — a component of a ship's company detached for special duty ashore.
  • landing strip — airstrip.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
  • lepidocrocite — a ruby-red to reddish-brown orthorhombic mineral, iron oxyhydroxide, FeO(OH), dimorphous with goethite: an ore of iron, used as a pigment.
  • 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.
  • lipid bilayer — a two-layered arrangement of phosphate and lipid molecules that form a cell membrane, the hydrophobic lipid ends facing inward and the hydrophilic phosphate ends facing outward.
  • lipodystrophy — A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
  • little dipper — the group of seven bright stars in Ursa Minor resembling a dipper in outline.
  • loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
  • 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.
  • milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
  • multi-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
  • nonperiodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
  • optical drive — optical disk drive
  • orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • pantie girdle — a girdle with a crotch.
  • paper-clipped — to fasten together with one or more paper clips: Paper-clip these letters and file them.
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