13-letter words containing l, a, d, n
- nonperiodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
- nonrecordable — Not recordable.
- nonrefundable — an amount refunded.
- nonscandalous — Not scandalous.
- noradrenaline — norepinephrine.
- north holland — a province in W Netherlands. 1163 sq. mi. (3010 sq. km). Capital: Haarlem.
- 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.
- null and void — without value, effect, consequence, or significance.
- occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
- occidentalize — to make Occidental.
- odontoblastic — Relating to odontoblasts.
- oil hardening — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
- old and young — people of all ages
- old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
- 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.
- optical sound — sound recorded on and subsequently played back from an optical or photographic soundtrack, as opposed to a magnetic soundtrack.
- 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
- ordinary loss — An ordinary loss is a loss in the course of normal business.
- organ-builder — a maker of organs
- orlando lasso — Orlando di [dee] /di/ (Show IPA), (Orlandus Lassus) 1532–94, Flemish composer.
- orthodiagonal — the axis in a crystal
- outgeneralled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
- outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- 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.
- paddling pool — A paddling pool is a shallow artificial pool for children to paddle in.
- pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
- pandiculation — the act of stretching oneself.
- 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.
- parotid gland — Also called parotid gland. a salivary gland situated at the base of each ear.
- parris island — a U.S. Marine Corps base, recruit depot, and training station in SE South Carolina, SW of Beaufort and S of Port Royal Island.
- parry islands — former name of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.
- 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.