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13-letter words containing s, a, l, d, i, n

  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • lantern slide — a slide or transparency for projection by a slide projector or magic lantern.
  • leading reins — straps or a harness and strap used to assist and control a child who is learning to walk
  • lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
  • libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
  • like sardines — very closely crowded together
  • list enhanced — (operating system, tool)   An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
  • lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
  • maiden castle — an ancient fortification in Dorsetshire, England, first erected c250 b.c. over the remains of Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements of c2000–c1500 b.c.
  • maladminister — to administer or manage badly or inefficiently: The mayor was a bungler who maladministered the city budget.
  • maladroitness — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
  • mercer island — a city in W central Washington, on Mercer Island in Lake Washington, east of Seattle.
  • mills grenade — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
  • milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
  • mine disposal — the removal, disarming, or destruction of explosive mines
  • mis-explained — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
  • mistranslated — Simple past tense and past participle of mistranslate.
  • monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
  • multiplicands — Plural form of multiplicand.
  • multistandard — able to process signals from several different systems
  • multistranded — having several strands
  • nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
  • niçoise salad — salade niçoise
  • niggardliness — The state of being niggardly.
  • nits-and-lice — a yellow-flowered plant, Hypericum drummondii, of the central U.S.
  • non-custodial — of or relating to custody.
  • nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • nondisposable — Not disposable.
  • nondivisional — Not divisional.
  • nonindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • nucleic acids — any of a group of long, linear macromolecules, either DNA or various types of RNA, that carry genetic information directing all cellular functions: composed of linked nucleotides.
  • nucleocapsids — Plural form of nucleocapsid.
  • occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
  • odontoblastic — Relating to odontoblasts.
  • old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
  • optical sound — sound recorded on and subsequently played back from an optical or photographic soundtrack, as opposed to a magnetic soundtrack.
  • ordinal scale — a scale on which data is shown simply in order of magnitude since there is no standard of measurement of differences: for instance, a squash ladder is an ordinal scale since one can say only that one person is better than another, but not by how much
  • ordinary loss — An ordinary loss is a loss in the course of normal business.
  • outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • paddle tennis — a game combining elements of tennis and handball, played with paddles and a rubber ball on a screened court about half the size of and having a lower net than a tennis court.
  • pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
  • parris island — a U.S. Marine Corps base, recruit depot, and training station in SE South Carolina, SW of Beaufort and S of Port Royal Island.
  • parry islands — former name of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.
  • plains indian — a member of any of the North American Indian peoples formerly living in the Great Plains of the US and Canada
  • platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
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