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13-letter words containing t, r, e, d, i, l

  • kindheartedly — In a kindhearted manner.
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
  • land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
  • landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
  • lantern slide — a slide or transparency for projection by a slide projector or magic lantern.
  • lateen-rigged — having lateen sails.
  • 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
  • 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).
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
  • light-hearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • little dipper — the group of seven bright stars in Ursa Minor resembling a dipper in outline.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
  • 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
  • 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.
  • midterm blues — the tendency of electorate to grow disillusioned with government around halfway through its term of office
  • mind-altering — causing marked changes in patterns of mood and behavior, as a hallucinogenic drug.
  • miscalibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalibrate.
  • mistranslated — Simple past tense and past participle of mistranslate.
  • mixed crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
  • mood-altering — (especially of drugs) capable of changing one's emotional state.
  • mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
  • mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • multicoloured — Alternative spelling of multicolored.
  • multicultured — Having more than one culture.
  • multicylinder — having more than one cylinder, as an internal-combustion or steam engine.
  • multiramified — having several branches or branchlike parts
  • multistranded — having several strands
  • multithreaded — multithreading
  • nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
  • netherlandian — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
  • non-editorial — of or relating to the commissioning or compiling of content for publication, or to a person who does such work: editorial policies; editorial skills.
  • nondeliberate — not deliberate or intentional
  • nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
  • 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.
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