0%

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

  • downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
  • draw the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • dreadlessness — the state or quality of being without fear or dread
  • dreamlessness — The state or condition of being dreamless; lack of dreams.
  • drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • dual alliance — the alliance between France and Russia (1890), strengthened by a military convention (1892–93) and lasting until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
  • dumb terminal — (hardware)   A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • e-mail client — mail user agent
  • ear-splitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
  • earl palatine — count palatine (def 2).
  • early closing — shop closure at earlier hour
  • early english — pertaining to the first style of Gothic architecture in England, ending in the latter half of the 13th century, characterized by the use of lancet arches, plate tracery, and narrow openings.
  • early warning — An early warning system warns people that something bad is likely to happen, for example that a machine is about to stop working, or that a country is being attacked.
  • early-evening — taking place or being presented in the early part of the evening
  • early-morning — taking place or being presented in the early part of the morning
  • east berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
  • east flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1150 sq. mi. (2980 sq. km). Capital: Ghent.
  • easter candle — a tall candle, symbolizing Christ, that is sometimes blessed and placed on the gospel side of an altar on Holy Saturday and kept burning until Ascension Day.
  • easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
  • eastern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • eccentrically — deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd: eccentric conduct; an eccentric person.
  • eco-labelling — the practice or system of using eco-labels
  • economy class — a low-priced type of accommodation for travel, especially on an airplane.
  • ectocommensal — Biology. (of an organism) living in a commensal relationship on the exterior of another organism.
  • ecumenicalism — the doctrines and practices of the ecumenical movement.
  • educationally — pertaining to education.
  • edward lorenz — (person)   A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.
  • eff and blind — to use obscene language
  • effectualness — The state or condition of being effectual.
  • egomaniacally — In an egomaniacal manner.
  • elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
  • eleanor cross — any of the crosses erected at each place where the body of Eleanor of Castile (1246–90, Edward I's Spanish wife) rested between Nottingham (where she died) and London (where she is buried)
  • electrization — the action of electrifying
  • electromagnet — A soft metal core made into a magnet by the passage of electric current through a coil surrounding it.
  • electron beam — a beam or stream of electrons emitted by a single source that move in the same direction and at the same speed
  • electrovalent — (of bonding) resulting from electrostatic attraction between positive and negative ions; ionic.
  • elephant fish — a large marine fish, Callorhinchus milii, of southwest Pacific waters, having a snout resembling an elephant's trunk
  • elephant seal — either of two large earless seals, Mirounga leonina of southern oceans or M. angustirostris of the N Atlantic, the males of which have a long trunklike snout
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • elephantiasis — A condition in which a limb or other part of the body becomes grossly enlarged due to obstruction of the lymphatic vessels, typically by the nematode parasites that cause filariasis.
  • elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
  • embranglement — Embroilment, entanglement; the state of being or getting embrangled.
  • embryonically — In an embryonic way.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?