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13-letter words containing o, d, y, n

  • roman holiday — a public spectacle or controversy marked by barbarism, vindictiveness, or scandal.
  • scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
  • scotland yard — a short street in central London, England: formerly the site of the London police headquarters, which were removed 1890 to a Thames embankment (New Scotland Yard, ).
  • secondary era — the period from the beginning of the Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous
  • sedimentology — the study of sedimentary rocks.
  • send away for — order by post
  • shetland pony — one of a breed of small but sturdy, rough-coated ponies, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
  • shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
  • solomon gundy — a dish of salted marinated herring in vinegar and spices
  • sound library — a collection of sounds stored on file (for example on CDs, DVDs, or as digital audio files)
  • spider monkey — any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having a slender body, long, slender limbs, and a long, prehensile tail: some are endangered.
  • spiny dogfish — any of several dogfish sharks of the genus Squalus, having a spine in front of each of the two dorsal fins, especially S. acanthias, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters.
  • spondylolysis — the destruction of the vertebra
  • sporting lady — a prostitute.
  • spotted hyena — a long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal native to Africa and S Asia (Crocuta crocuta)
  • stony-hearted — hardhearted.
  • sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
  • superordinary — that is superior to the ordinary
  • sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
  • synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
  • synchondrosis — the joining of two bones by cartilage
  • syndesmectomy — excision of part of a ligament.
  • 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.
  • synodic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • tendency tone — a tone that is harmonically or melodically unstable and tends naturally to resolve itself either upward or downward.
  • tetradynamous — having four long and two short stamens, as a cruciferous flower.
  • 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 secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
  • thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
  • thousand days — the presidential administration of John F. Kennedy, which lasted 1037 days (January 20, 1961, to November 22, 1963).
  • 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.
  • tom and jerry — a hot drink made of rum and water or milk, beaten eggs, spices, and sugar.
  • traditionally — of or relating to tradition.
  • transboundary — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • transportedly — in a passionate or rapturous manner
  • treasury bond — any of various interest-bearing bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury Department, usually maturing over a long period of time.
  • twenty-second — next after the twenty-first; being the ordinal number for 22.
  • uncommendably — in an uncommendable manner
  • underemployed — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
  • unsupportedly — in an unsupported fashion, without support
  • upon my word! — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • vandyke brown — a medium brown color.
  • vindicatorily — in a vindicatory manner
  • well-conveyed — to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
  • wend your way — If you wend your way in a particular direction, you walk, especially slowly, casually, or carefully, in that direction.
  • wolffian body — the mesonephros.
  • wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
  • woolly indris — a related nocturnal Madagascan animal, Avahi laniger, with thick grey-brown fur and a long tail
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