13-letter words containing n, o, l, a, d
- spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
- subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- sulfonic acid — any of a large group of organic compounds of the structure RSO 2 OH, which are strong acids that give neutral sodium salts: used in the synthesis of phenols, dyes, and other substances.
- sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
- synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- thiabendazole — a drug used as an antifungal treatment and as an anthelmintic
- thyroid gland — a two-lobed endocrine gland, located at the base of the neck that secretes two hormones that regulate the rates of metabolism, growth, and development.
- time dilation — Physics. (in relativity) the apparent loss of time of a moving clock as observed by a stationary observer.
- to end it all — If someone ends it all, they kill themselves.
- 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.
- traction load — the solid material that is carried along the bed of a river
- trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
- trade journal — periodical of a profession
- trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
- traditionally — of or relating to tradition.
- transportedly — in a passionate or rapturous manner
- uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
- unchlorinated — not chlorinated; not treated with chlorine
- uncommendable — not able to be commended; unworthy of commendation; reprehensible
- uncommendably — in an uncommendable manner
- uncomplicated — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- unconditional — not limited by conditions; absolute: an unconditional promise.
- under a cloud — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- undermodulate — to reproduce (a sound or signal) at below the optimal output level in a recording or broadcasting system, causing it to be distorted.
- undiagnosable — unable to be diagnosed
- undirectional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- undulationist — a subscriber to the theory that light is transmitted as waves
- unideological — not having, belonging to, or relating to any particular ideology or belief system
- unmetabolised — not metabolised
- unmetabolized — not metabolized
- unobliterated — to blot out or render undecipherable (writing, marks, etc.); efface.
- unputdownable — (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.
- untraditional — of or relating to tradition.
- upland cotton — a plant, Gossypium hirsutum, of warm regions of the New World, that is the chief commercial cotton crop in the U.S.
- upland plover — a large, field-inhabiting sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, of eastern North America, resembling a plover: now protected and increasing in numbers.
- valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
- vandalization — an act of vandalizing
- vashon island — an island in Puget Sound, W central Washington, between Seattle and Tacoma. 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km).
- victoria land — a region in Antarctica, bordering on the Ross Sea, mainly in Ross Dependency.
- vidalia onion — a large, usually somewhat flat onion with a sweet white flesh.
- vindicatorily — in a vindicatory manner
- volta redonda — a city in SE Brazil, NW of Rio de Janeiro.
- votive candle — religion: candle lit in prayer
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.