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

  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • sound blaster — (hardware)   The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • standard cell — a primary electric cell, as the Weston cell, that produces an accurately known constant voltage: used in scientific measurements.
  • star-spangled — spangled with stars.
  • staten island — an island facing New York Bay.
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • the new world — the Americas; the western hemisphere
  • thiabendazole — a drug used as an antifungal treatment and as an anthelmintic
  • threefoldness — the state or condition of being threefold
  • thundersquall — a combined squall and thunderstorm.
  • 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.
  • tout le monde — all the world; everyone
  • 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.
  • trade balance — balance of trade.
  • trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
  • trade journal — periodical of a profession
  • tradesmanlike — like or characteristic of a tradesman
  • trailing edge — the rear edge of a propeller blade or airfoil.
  • transportedly — in a passionate or rapturous manner
  • trinucleotide — three linked nucleotides; triplet.
  • triple-nerved — noting a leaf in which two prominent nerves emerge from the middle nerve a little above its base.
  • turbine blade — any of a number of bladelike vanes assembled around the periphery of a turbine rotor to guide the steam or gas flow
  • twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
  • tyndallimetry — the determination of the concentration of suspended material in a liquid by measuring the amount of light scattered
  • u-net limited — A dial-up Internet access provider based in Warrington, UK. Speeds 4800 - 28.8kbps. The currently support Microsoft Windows and RISC OS users. For 12 pounds to join and 12 pounds per month or 100 pounds per year you get a full SLIP account with a pernament IP address and POP3 electronic mail account. Membership includes a disk with Mosaic, Eudora, Trumpet2, Newsreader, FTP and Telnet and full Internet access. Users can choose their own user name and hostname. Allows some extra services such as more than one POP3 account per access account. User name is significant so that a company can have accounts with the same hostname (i.e. their company name) but the mail going to diffent machines. Mail in users POP3 account is accessible from anywhere not just via the dial-up connection. On your next business trip you can still check your e-mail (provided you can get onto the Internet). E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
  • un-convoluted — twisted; coiled.
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