13-letter words containing l, o, d, e, s
- sounding line — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
- south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
- special order — A special order is an extra order or an order for an item specially requested by a customer.
- special-order — to obtain by specific individual order: to special-order a dining-room chandelier.
- speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots
- spider flower — cleome
- splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
- spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
- stores ledger — a record kept of the amount, type, etc., of raw materials and supplies on hand, as in a manufacturing plant.
- strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
- strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
- subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- sugar of lead — lead acetate.
- supercollider — a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy.
- superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
- symbolic code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
- 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.
- technologised — 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
- the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
- the last word — final retort
- threefoldness — the state or condition of being threefold
- 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.
- transportedly — in a passionate or rapturous manner
- trous-de-loup — a conical or pyramidal pit with a pointed stake fixed vertically in the center, rows of which are dug in front of a fortification to hinder an enemy's approach, formerly used chiefly against cavalry.
- two solitudes — a term for the situation of English and French Canada, considered as socially and culturally isolated from each other
- un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
- uncloudedness — the quality or state of being unclouded or free of clouds
- undeleterious — injurious to health: deleterious gases.
- undiagnosable — unable to be diagnosed
- unmetabolised — not metabolised
- unsoldierlike — not befitting a soldier
- unsupportedly — in an unsupported fashion, without support
- unupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- valle d'aosta — a region in NW Italy. 1259 sq. mi. (3260 sq. km).
- versicoloured — of variable or various colours
- violin spider — brown recluse spider.
- volksdeutsche — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- water soldier — an aquatic plant, Stratiotes aloides, of Europe and NW Asia, having rosettes of large leaves and large three-petalled white flowers: family Hydrocharitaceae
- well disposed — If you are well disposed to a person, plan, or activity, you are likely to agree with them or support them.
- well-assorted — properly matched and suited to one another
- well-composed — calm; tranquil; serene: His composed face reassured the nervous passengers.
- well-disposed — favorably, sympathetically, or kindly disposed: The sponsors are well-disposed toward our plan.
- well-observed — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- well-polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- well-reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
- well-schooled — having been trained or educated sufficiently, as in a school