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

  • law-and-order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • lead monoxide — litharge.
  • leading block — lead block.
  • lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • levant dollar — a silver coin, either a Maria Theresa thaler or an imitation of one, formerly used for trade with Abyssinia, Eritrea, Aden, etc. Imitations bear the date 1780 regardless of the year of minting.
  • levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
  • lifted domain — (theory)   In domain theory, a domain with a new bottom element added. Given a domain D, the lifted domain, lift D contains an element lift d corresponding to each element d in D with the same ordering as in D and a new element bottom which is less than every other element in lift D. In functional languages, a lifted domain can be used to model a constructed type, e.g. the type data LiftedInt = K Int contains the values K minint .. K maxint and K bottom, corresponding to the values in Int, and a new value bottom. This denotes the fact that when computing a value v = (K n) the computation of either n or v may fail to terminate yielding the values (K bottom) or bottom respectively. (In LaTeX, a lifted domain or element is indicated by a subscript \perp). See also tuple.
  • lightning rod — a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
  • lines of code — (programming, unit)   (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
  • linoleic acid — an unsaturated fatty acid, C 18 H 32 O 2 , occurring as a glyceride in drying oils, as in linseed oil.
  • liquid oxygen — a clear, pale blue liquid obtained by compressing oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point: used chiefly as an oxidizer in liquid rocket propellants.
  • lo and behold — Lo and behold or lo is used to emphasize a surprising event that is about to be mentioned, or to emphasize in a humorous way that something is not surprising at all.
  • load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
  • load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
  • lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.
  • loft building — a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy.
  • london bridge — a bridge over the Thames between the City of London on the north side, and Southwark on the south side.
  • london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
  • long division — division, usually by a number of two or more digits, in which each step of the process is written down.
  • long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
  • long-standing — existing or occurring for a long time: a longstanding feud.
  • lonsdale belt — (in Britain) a belt conferred as a trophy on professional boxing champions, in various weight categories: if a champion wins it three times it becomes his personal property
  • look and feel — (operating system)   The appearance and function of a program's user interface. The term is most often applied to graphical user interfaces (GUI) but might also be used by extension for a textual command language used to control a program. Look and feel includes such things as the icons used to represent certain functions such as opening and closing files, directories and application programs and changing the size and position of windows; conventions for the meaning of different buttons on a mouse and keys on the keyboard; and the appearance and operation of menus. A user interface with a consistent look and feel is considered by many to be an important factor in the ease of use of a computer system. The success of the Macintosh user interface was partly due to its consistency. Because of the perceived importance of look and feel, there have been several legal actions claiming breech of copyright on the look and feel of user interfaces, most notably by Apple Computer against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard (which Apple lost) and, later, by Xerox against Apple Computer. Such legal action attempts to force suppliers to make their interfaces inconsistent with those of other vendors' products. This can only be bad for users and the industry as a whole.
  • loose-jointed — having or marked by easy, free movement; limber.
  • loose-tongued — unrestrained or irresponsible in speech; given to gossiping.
  • losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
  • lounge around — to pass time idly and indolently.
  • lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
  • low-bandwidth — [communication theory] Used to indicate a talk that, although not content-free, was not terribly informative. "That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of suits!" Compare zero-content, bandwidth, math-out.
  • lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
  • ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
  • macrodiagonal — the longer of two diagonals
  • main diagonal — a diagonal line or plane.
  • maladaptation — incomplete, inadequate, or faulty adaptation.
  • maladroitness — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
  • maldeployment — the inefficient use of resources or an instance of such
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • malleoincudal — Of or relating to both the malleus and the incus.
  • mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
  • mannheim gold — a brass alloy used to imitate gold; red brass.
  • many-coloured — having many colours
  • maxillodental — Relating to the jaw and teeth.
  • maxwell demon — a hypothetical agent or device of arbitrarily small mass that is considered to admit or block selectively the passage of individual molecules from one compartment to another according to their speed, constituting a violation of the second law of thermodynamics.
  • melodiousness — The property of being melodious.
  • meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
  • metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
  • metatoluidine — a colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 9 N, the meta isomer of toluidine, used in the manufacture of dyes and other organic compounds.
  • metronidazole — a synthetic antimicrobial substance, C 6 H 9 N 3 O 3 , used chiefly in the treatment of infections, such as Trichomonas vaginalis and certain anaerobic bacterial infections.
  • mid glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 393 sq. mi. (1019 sq. km).
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