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13-letter words containing l, i, t, e, d

  • south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
  • split spindle — a turned piece halved lengthwise for use as applied ornament, as on a chest or cupboard, or as part of a chair back or the like.
  • spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
  • sprint medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards, the second and third members run 220 yards each, and the fourth member runs 880 yards.
  • 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.
  • staten island — an island facing New York Bay.
  • striped maple — a maple, Acer pensylvanicum, of northeastern North America, having white-striped bark.
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
  • superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
  • swindle sheet — an expense account.
  • 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.
  • tax duplicate — the certification of real-estate assessments to the taxing authorities
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • technologized — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • 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.
  • teledildonics — a technology supposedly enabling two or more people to engage in sexual activity remotely
  • telerecording — the recording of television signals on tape or, more usually, on film
  • telluric acid — a white, toxic, crystalline compound, H 6 TeO 6 , slightly soluble in cold water, soluble in hot water and alkalis: used as an analytical agent.
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
  • the afflicted — afflicted people considered collectively
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • the good life — If you say that someone is living the good life, you mean that they are living in comfort and luxury with few problems or worries.
  • 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
  • the multitude — the common people
  • the palisades — line of steep cliffs in NE N.J. & SE N.Y. on the west shore of the Hudson: c. 15 mi (24 km) long
  • thiabendazole — a drug used as an antifungal treatment and as an anthelmintic
  • thick-skulled — stupid; dull.
  • third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
  • thread blight — a fungal disease of woody plants, characterized by thick, threadlike strands of mycelium on the undersides of the leaves and branches.
  • ticket holder — a person who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey on public transport
  • tidal barrage — a barrier that traps water at high tide, creating a tidal basin
  • time dilation — Physics. (in relativity) the apparent loss of time of a moving clock as observed by a stationary observer.
  • timed-release — sustained-release.
  • 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.
  • toile de jouy — a cotton or linen fabric characterized by monochromatic prints on a light background.
  • toilet powder — a fine powder sprinkled or rubbed over the skin, especially after bathing.
  • trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
  • tradesmanlike — like or characteristic of a tradesman
  • trailing edge — the rear edge of a propeller blade or airfoil.
  • tread lightly — to proceed with delicacy or tact
  • triglycerides — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of three hydroxyl groups with fatty acids, naturally occurring in animal and vegetable tissues: an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body.
  • trinucleotide — three linked nucleotides; triplet.
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