13-letter words containing t, e, l, d
- old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- old northwest — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.
- old pretender — a member of the royal family that ruled in Scotland from 1371 to 1714 and in England from 1603 to 1714.
- old stone age — the Paleolithic period.
- old testament — the first of the two main divisions of the Christian Bible, comprising the Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa. In the Vulgate translation all but two books of the Apocrypha are included in the Old Testament.
- oligopeptides — Plural form of oligopeptide.
- on the double — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- on the fiddle — If someone is on the fiddle, they get money by doing illegal or dishonest things.
- on the needle — a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- openheartedly — Alt form open-heartedly.
- openmouthedly — in a manner filled with amazement and wonder
- opinionatedly — In an opinionated manner.
- optical drive — optical disk drive
- optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
- orbital index — the ratio of the maximum breadth to the maximum height of the orbital cavity multiplied by 100.
- orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
- otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
- ottawa euclid — Euclid
- outdo oneself — to do something better than one ever did before or thought one could do
- outgeneralled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
- over-detailed — having many details: a detailed problem.
- overallocated — Allocated in excess.
- overcredulity — Excessive credulity.
- overmultitude — to exceed in number
- overpopulated — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- 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.
- pallet loader — A device employing a vertical lift platform for the mechanical loading or unloading of pallets of freight
- pantie girdle — a girdle with a crotch.
- paradise lost — an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.
- parti-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
- party-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- patent holder — a person or company that holds a patent
- patrol leader — the leader of a division of a troop of Scouts or Guides
- pattern-drill — (in foreign-language learning) a technique for practicing a linguistic structure in which students repeat a sentence or other structure, each time substituting a new element, such as a new verb, as directed by the teacher, or transforming the original structure, as in changing a statement to a question.
- pedal cyclist — a person who rides a pedal cycle, as opposed to a motorcycle
- pedestal desk — a desk with a writing surface supported by a pair of sets of drawers
- pedicellation — having a pedicel or pedicels.
- pendente lite — during litigation; while a suit is in progress.
- pentadactylic — having five digits on each limb
- pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
- peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
- perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
- periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
- periodontally — with respect to periodontal tissue
- perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
- petrol-driven — (of a car, engine, etc) powered by petrol
- plant breeder — a botanist concerned with the origin and evolution of plants
- plasmodesmata — any of many minute strands of cytoplasm that extend through plant cell walls and connect adjoining cells.
- platitudinize — to utter platitudes.