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

  • blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
  • bloody sunday — (in Northern Ireland) 30th January 1972, when British soldiers shot dead thirteen marchers in Londonderry who were protesting against the UK government's policy of internment
  • bloomfieldian — Linguistics. influenced by, resembling, or deriving from the linguistic theory and the methods of linguistic analysis advocated by Leonard Bloomfield, characterized especially by emphasis on the classification of overt formal features.
  • body and soul — You use body and soul to mean every part of you, including your mind and your emotions.
  • body language — Your body language is the way in which you show your feelings or thoughts to other people by means of the position or movements of your body, rather than with words.
  • bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
  • bonin islands — a group of 27 volcanic islands in the W Pacific: occupied by the US after World War II; returned to Japan in 1968. Largest island: Chichijima. Area: 103 sq km (40 sq miles)
  • boots and all — making every effort; with no holds barred
  • bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
  • boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brand loyalty — the tendency of consumers to continue buying a particular brand instead of trying a different one
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • bridging loan — A bridging loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
  • bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
  • cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
  • candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
  • capello index — a player rating website backed by Fabio Capello in which marks are awarded to football players in the top teams according to their performance in key skills of the game
  • carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
  • card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
  • cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
  • cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
  • chiloe island — an island administered by Chile, off the W coast of South America in the Pacific Ocean: timber. Pop: 154 775 (2002, Chiloé province). Area: 8394 sq km (3240 sq miles)
  • chlamydomonas — a green, fresh water alga of the class Chlorophyceae that is flagellate and made up of a single cell
  • clamp down on — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
  • clinodiagonal — the diagonal axis of a monoclinic crystal
  • clinopinacoid — (in monoclinic crystals) the plane that is parallel to both the vertical and the inclined lateral axes
  • close at hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
  • close-at-hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • closed season — The closed season is the period of the year when it is prohibited to kill certain types of animal or fish.
  • closed stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is positioned closer to the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • cocos islands — a group of 27 coral islands in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Java: a Territory of Australia since 1955. Pop: 596 (2010). Area: 13 sq km (5 sq miles)
  • code napoleon — the civil code of France, promulgated between 1804 and 1810, comprising the main body of French civil law
  • codeclination — the astronomical coordinate complementary to the declination
  • coeducational — A coeducational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
  • compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
  • comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
  • conditionable — able to be conditioned
  • conditionally — imposing, containing, subject to, or depending on a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or allowed on certain terms: conditional acceptance.
  • condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
  • conglomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglomerate.
  • conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
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