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13-letter words containing o, l, d, r, i

  • intercondylar — Anatomy. the smooth surface area at the end of a bone, forming part of a joint.
  • intermodalism — pertaining to or suitable for transportation involving more than one form of carrier, as truck and rail, or truck, ship, and rail.
  • introvertedly — In an introverted manner.
  • iridocyclitis — (medicine) A type of anterior uveitis.
  • kolding fjord — an inlet of the Little Belt at the head of which is Kolding
  • ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
  • lepidocrocite — a ruby-red to reddish-brown orthorhombic mineral, iron oxyhydroxide, FeO(OH), dimorphous with goethite: an ore of iron, used as a pigment.
  • lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
  • lepidopterist — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
  • lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
  • lexical order — the arrangement of a set of items in accordance with a recursive algorithm, such as the entries in a dictionary whose order depends on their first letter unless these are the same in which case it is the second which decides, and so on
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • lightning rod — a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
  • lipodystrophy — A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
  • liquid storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
  • lizard orchid — a European orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum, rare in Britain, having a spike of grey-green flowers smelling of goats
  • london bridge — a bridge over the Thames between the City of London on the north side, and Southwark on the south side.
  • loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
  • losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
  • lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
  • ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
  • macrodiagonal — the longer of two diagonals
  • mail exploder — (messaging)   Part of an electronic mail delivery system which allows a message to be delivered to a list of addresses. Mail exploders are used to implement mailing lists. Users send messages to a single address and the mail exploder takes care of delivery to the individual mailboxes in the list.
  • major medical — insurance designed to compensate for particularly large medical expenses due to a severe or prolonged illness, usually by paying a high percentage of medical bills above a certain amount.
  • maladroitness — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
  • mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
  • material mode — the normal use of language that refers to extra-linguistic subjects without explicit mention of the words themselves. Fido is a dog is in the material mode, while "Fido" is a dog's name is in the formal mode
  • medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
  • melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
  • melodramatist — A writer of melodramas.
  • melodramatize — to make melodramatic.
  • meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
  • 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).
  • middle course — an option or alternative between more extreme alternatives
  • middle ground — an intermediate position, area, or recourse between two opposites or extremes; a halfway or neutral standpoint.
  • middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
  • middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
  • milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
  • milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
  • mitochondrial — (cytology) Of, or relating to mitochondria.
  • model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
  • molding board — a board upon which bread is kneaded, cookies prepared, etc.
  • monochlorides — Plural form of monochloride.
  • monoglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of one hydroxyl group with a fatty acid.
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