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14-letter words containing t, o, l, a, n, d

  • finlandization — the neutralization of a country in terms of its allegiance to the superpowers, in the way that the Soviet Union rendered Finland neutral and friendly without making it a satellite state or requiring that it adopt Communism.
  • flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
  • focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
  • foliated joint — a joint between the rabbeted and overlapping edges of two boards, forming a continuous surface on each side.
  • foundationally — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
  • front-end load — the sales commission and other fees taken out of the first year's payment under a contractual plan for purchasing shares of a mutual fund (front-end load fund) over a period of years.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • go into detail — elaborate, recount more fully
  • golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • golden ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
  • greater london — Jack, 1876–1916, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
  • groote eylandt — an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria off the coast of NE Australia. 950 sq. mi. (2461 sq. km).
  • haplodiplontic — (biology, of a life cycle) Having multicellular diploid and haploid stages.
  • heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • height of land — a watershed
  • hold to ransom — to keep (prisoners, property, etc) in confinement until payment for their release is made or received
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
  • idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
  • indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indiana ballot — a ballot on which the candidates are listed in separate columns by party.
  • indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
  • indomitability — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
  • intraabdominal — Within the cavity of the abdomen.
  • irrationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of irrationalise.
  • isolated point — Mathematics. a point in a set such that the neighborhood of the point is devoid of any other points belonging to the set.
  • isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
  • jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
  • kedleston hall — a mansion near Derby in Derbyshire: rebuilt (1759–65) for the Curzon family by Matthew Brettingham, James Paine, and Robert Adam
  • labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
  • labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
  • lattice window — a window formed of an open framework of wood, metal, etc, arranged to form an ornamental pattern
  • lead carbonate — a white crystalline compound, PbCO 3 , toxic when inhaled, insoluble in water and alcohol: used as an exterior paint pigment.
  • leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
  • linkage editor — linker
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