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13-letter words containing e, l, a, n, d

  • nonmyelinated — (of nerve fibres) lacking a myelin sheath
  • nonperiodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
  • nonrecordable — Not recordable.
  • nonrefundable — an amount refunded.
  • noradrenaline — norepinephrine.
  • novated lease — Australian system of employer-aided car purchase
  • nucleic acids — any of a group of long, linear macromolecules, either DNA or various types of RNA, that carry genetic information directing all cellular functions: composed of linked nucleotides.
  • nucleocapsids — Plural form of nucleocapsid.
  • occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
  • occidentalize — to make Occidental.
  • oil hardening — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
  • old icelandic — Old Norse as used in Iceland. Abbreviation: OIcel.
  • old man river — a name for the Mississippi River
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
  • old stone age — the Paleolithic period.
  • old testament — the first of the two main divisions of the Christian Bible, comprising the Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa. In the Vulgate translation all but two books of the Apocrypha are included in the Old Testament.
  • old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
  • onondaga lake — salt lake northwest of Syracuse, N.Y.: c. 5 sq mi (13 sq km)
  • openheartedly — Alt form open-heartedly.
  • opinionatedly — In an opinionated manner.
  • orbital index — the ratio of the maximum breadth to the maximum height of the orbital cavity multiplied by 100.
  • 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
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • outgeneralled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
  • overland mail — a government mail service, started in 1848, for sending mail from the Mississippi to the Far West.
  • overland park — a town in E Kansas, near Kansas City.
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • paddle tennis — a game combining elements of tennis and handball, played with paddles and a rubber ball on a screened court about half the size of and having a lower net than a tennis court.
  • pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
  • pantie girdle — a girdle with a crotch.
  • passchendaele — a village in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: the scene of heavy fighting during the third battle of Ypres in World War I during which 245 000 British troops were lost
  • patent holder — a person or company that holds a patent
  • pattern-drill — (in foreign-language learning) a technique for practicing a linguistic structure in which students repeat a sentence or other structure, each time substituting a new element, such as a new verb, as directed by the teacher, or transforming the original structure, as in changing a statement to a question.
  • payday lender — a person or group that offers short-term loans, in advance of payday, at high rates of interest
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • pearl-handled — having a handle made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • pebble garden — a small ornamental garden mainly composed of an arrangement of pebbles
  • pedicellation — having a pedicel or pedicels.
  • pentadactylic — having five digits on each limb
  • pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
  • peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
  • perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
  • periodontally — with respect to periodontal tissue
  • perpendicular — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
  • phenylic acid — phenol (def 1).
  • pinar del rio — a city in W Cuba.
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • plain dealing — direct and honest conduct in one's relations and transactions with others.
  • plant breeder — a botanist concerned with the origin and evolution of plants
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