14-letter words containing d, r, o, l, n
- flanders poppy — corn poppy.
- fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
- food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
- forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- front-end load — the sales commission and other fees taken out of the first year's payment under a contractual plan for purchasing shares of a mutual fund (front-end load fund) over a period of years.
- garboard plank — the bottommost plank of a vessel's hull
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
- golden ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
- golden warbler — yellow warbler.
- grand ole opry — a successful radio show from Nashville, Tenn., first broadcast on Nov. 28, 1925, noted for its playing of and continuing importance to country music.
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
- greater london — Jack, 1876–1916, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
- green lead ore — pyromorphite.
- groote eylandt — an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria off the coast of NE Australia. 950 sq. mi. (2461 sq. km).
- ground control — an airport facility that supervises the movement of aircraft and ground vehicles on ramps and taxiways.
- ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
- ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
- groundlessness — The state or condition of being groundless.
- groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
- gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
- gull-wing door — a car door that opens upwards
- gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
- haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
- heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- hendersonville — a city in S Tennessee.
- hold to ransom — to keep (prisoners, property, etc) in confinement until payment for their release is made or received
- honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
- hydrodynamical — Hydrodynamic.
- hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
- hydroponically — Using hydroponics.
- hydroxyproline — a nutritionally nonessential amino acid, C 5 H 9 NO 3 , found chiefly in collagen.
- hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
- idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
- ill-considered — lacking thorough consideration; ill-suited; unwise.
- impersonalised — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- impersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of impersonalize.
- imponderabilia — Those things that are imponderable.
- in holy orders — ordained
- inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
- inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
- indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
- indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.