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13-letter words containing e, v, o, l, d

  • l-d converter — a vessel in which steel is made from pig iron by blowing oxygen into the molten metal through a water-cooled tube
  • ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
  • leave sb cold — If something leaves you cold, it fails to excite or interest you.
  • levant dollar — a silver coin, either a Maria Theresa thaler or an imitation of one, formerly used for trade with Abyssinia, Eritrea, Aden, etc. Imitations bear the date 1780 regardless of the year of minting.
  • levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
  • lord advocate — (in Scotland) the chief law officer of the Crown who acts as public prosecutor and is in charge of the administration of criminal justice
  • milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
  • mobile device — a portable, wireless computing device that is small enough to be used while held in the hand; a handheld: a large selection of smartphones, PDAs, and other mobile devices.
  • noncultivated — relating to natural resources that are not under institutional or managed cultivation
  • novated lease — Australian system of employer-aided car purchase
  • old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
  • old man river — a name for the Mississippi River
  • old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
  • olduvai gorge — a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
  • optical drive — optical disk drive
  • orchard valve — an alfalfa valve of lesser diameter than the pipe it closes.
  • over-detailed — having many details: a detailed problem.
  • over-idealize — to make ideal; represent in an ideal form or character; exalt to an ideal perfection or excellence.
  • overallocated — Allocated in excess.
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • overcivilized — excessively civilized
  • overcredulity — Excessive credulity.
  • overcredulous — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
  • overdeveloped — Simple past tense and past participle of overdevelop.
  • 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.
  • overleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively high ratio of debt capital to equity capital
  • overmultitude — to exceed in number
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • overpopulated — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
  • petrol-driven — (of a car, engine, etc) powered by petrol
  • pre-developed — to bring out the capabilities or possibilities of; bring to a more advanced or effective state: to develop natural resources; to develop one's musical talent.
  • record sleeve — the outer covering of a phonograph record
  • redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
  • ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
  • river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
  • roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
  • self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
  • self-devotion — intense devotion of oneself to an activity or to a field or profession, as art or science.
  • self-governed — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • self-involved — self-centered; preoccupied with oneself
  • self-observed — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
  • short-sleeved — having short sleeves
  • silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
  • silver dollar — A silver dollar is an American coin, worth one dollar, that is made of silver.
  • silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
  • silver iodide — a pale-yellow, water-insoluble solid, AgI, which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in medicine, photography, and artificial rainmaking.
  • slieve donard — a mountain in SE Northern Ireland, in the Mourne Mountains: highest peak in Northern Ireland. Height: 853 m (2798 ft)
  • slow dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another over a period of about three of four seconds
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