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

  • double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
  • double-dipper — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
  • double-ripper — bobsled (def 2).
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
  • dry ski slope — A dry ski slope is a slope made of an artificial substance on which you can practise skiing.
  • dysmorphology — The study of genetic defects, especially congenital malformations.
  • early adopter — a person who uses a new product or technology before it becomes widely known or used.
  • electroplated — Simple past tense and past participle of electroplate.
  • 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.
  • fanfold paper — continuous paper perforated at regular intervals, as used in a dot-matrix printer
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • 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
  • foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
  • gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
  • gödel's proof — a proof that in a formal axiomatic system such as logic or mathematics it is impossible to prove consistency without using methods from outside the system, demonstrated by Kurt Gödel (1906–78)
  • golden plover — either of two plovers of the genus Pluvialis, having the back marked with golden-yellow spots, P. apricaria, of Europe, or P. dominica, of America.
  • hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
  • hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hydropathical — Alternative form of hydropathic.
  • hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
  • hyperlordosis — Particularly severe lordosis.
  • ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
  • imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
  • improvidently — In an improvident manner.
  • jet-propelled — propelled by a jet engine or engines.
  • lambda prolog — (language)   An extension of standard Prolog defined by Dale A. Miller and Gopalan Nadathur in 1986, in which terms are strongly typed lambda terms. Clauses are higher order hereditary Harrop formulas. The main novelties are universal quantification on goals and implication. The Prolog/Mali compiler compiles Lambda Prolog for the MALI abstract memory system. Mailing list: [email protected]
  • 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.
  • leaded petrol — petrol containing tetraethyl lead in order to improve combustion
  • leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
  • 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.
  • lipodystrophy — A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
  • 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
  • lord temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
  • lord's prayer — the, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
  • lord's supper — the, the sacrament in commemoration of the Last Supper; communion; Mass; Eucharist.
  • 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
  • modula-prolog — Adds a Prolog layer to Modula-2. "Modula-Prolog: A Software Development Tool", C. Muller IEEE Software pp.39-45 (Nov 1986).
  • multi-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
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