13-letter words containing l, a, d, n
- south holland — a province in the SW Netherlands. 1086 sq. mi. (2810 sq. km). Capital: The Hague.
- special needs — learning difficulties
- speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
- speed dialing — to dial (a telephone number) using speed dial.
- speed walking — power walking.
- spice islands — the Moluccas
- spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
- splitting adz — a heavy stone tool used by prehistoric peoples in northwestern North America and northeastern Asia.
- sporting lady — a prostitute.
- spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- stader splint — a splint consisting of an adjustable metal rod with a steel pin at either end for insertion in the bone above and below a fracture.
- stained glass — glass that has been colored, enameled, painted, or stained, especially by having pigments baked onto its surface or by having various metallic oxides fused into it, as used in church windows, decorative lampshades, etc.
- standard cell — a primary electric cell, as the Weston cell, that produces an accurately known constant voltage: used in scientific measurements.
- standard lamp — A standard lamp is a tall electric light which stands on the floor in a living room.
- standard lisp — A subset of Lisp 1.5 developed by A. Hearn primarily for implementing REDUCE. It was replaced by Portable Sandard LISP.
- star-spangled — spangled with stars.
- staten island — an island facing New York Bay.
- still and all — remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
- subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- sulfadimidine — an antibacterial sulfa drug used in human and veterinary medicine. It is effective against chlamydia, toxoplasma, and cocidia
- sulfanilamide — a white, crystalline amide of sulfanilic acid, C 6 H 8 N 2 O 2 S, formerly used in the treatment of bacterial infections: replaced by its derivatives and by antibiotics.
- sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
- sulfonic acid — any of a large group of organic compounds of the structure RSO 2 OH, which are strong acids that give neutral sodium salts: used in the synthesis of phenols, dyes, and other substances.
- sunda islands — a chain of islands in the Malay Archipelago, consisting of the Greater Sunda Islands (chiefly Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Sulawesi) and Nusa Tenggara (the Lesser Sunda Islands)
- sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
- supercalender — a roll or set of rolls for giving a high, smooth finish to paper.
- synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
- synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
- table dancing — Table dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances in a sexy way close to a customer or group of customers.
- tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
- tandem roller — a type of road roller in which the front and back wheels consist of rollers of about the same diameter
- tantalic acid — an acid, HTaO 3 , that forms complex salts or tantalates.
- team handball — a game, similar to soccer, played between two teams of seven players who catch, dribble, throw, or hit the ball with the hands.
- telediagnosis — the detection of a disease by evaluating data transmitted to a receiving station from instruments monitoring a distant patient, as someone in a spacecraft.
- ten-yard rule — the rule allowing a referee, when a player disputes the award of a penalty or free kick, to penalize the offending side further by moving the place from which the kick is to be taken ten yards further forward
- the headlines — the main points of a television or radio news broadcast, read out before the full broadcast and summarized at the end
- the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
- the iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
- thiabendazole — a drug used as an antifungal treatment and as an anthelmintic
- thundersquall — a combined squall and thunderstorm.
- thyroid gland — a two-lobed endocrine gland, located at the base of the neck that secretes two hormones that regulate the rates of metabolism, growth, and development.
- time dilation — Physics. (in relativity) the apparent loss of time of a moving clock as observed by a stationary observer.
- tintagel head — a cape in SW England, on the W coast of Cornwall.
- to end it all — If someone ends it all, they kill themselves.
- townsend plan — a pension plan, proposed in the U.S. in 1934 but never passed by Congress, that would have awarded $200 monthly to persons over 60 who were no longer gainfully employed, provided that such allowance was spent in the U.S. within 30 days.
- traction load — the solid material that is carried along the bed of a river
- trade balance — balance of trade.
- trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.