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13-letter words containing ord

  • kolding fjord — an inlet of the Little Belt at the head of which is Kolding
  • law and order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • law-and-order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • 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
  • lord advocate — (in Scotland) the chief law officer of the Crown who acts as public prosecutor and is in charge of the administration of criminal justice
  • lord of hosts — Jehovah; God.
  • lord temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
  • lord's prayer — the, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
  • lord's supper — the, the sacrament in commemoration of the Last Supper; communion; Mass; Eucharist.
  • made to order — made in accordance with an individual's specifications or requirements: a made-to-order suit. Compare ready-to-wear.
  • made-to-order — made in accordance with an individual's specifications or requirements: a made-to-order suit. Compare ready-to-wear.
  • mark my words — If you say 'mark my words' to someone, you are emphasizing that something you have just warned them about is very likely to happen, especially when you think they should change their attitude or behaviour to prevent it.
  • matagorda bay — a bay in SE Texas, at the mouth of the Colorado River, separated from the Gulf of Mexico by the Matagorda Peninsula. About 50 miles (80 km) long.
  • matched order — an order placed with a broker to buy a specified stock at a price above the market price with the intention of immediately selling the stock through another broker at the same price. It is designed to give the appearance of active trading in the stock.
  • milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
  • minimum order — A minimum order is the smallest amount or number that may be ordered in one delivery, usually to spread delivery costs over an economical number of units.
  • miscoordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • mood disorder — any mental disorder, as depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, or cyclothymia, in which a major disturbance of feelings or emotions is predominant.
  • mordant rouge — a solution of aluminum acetate in acetic acid, used in dyeing and calico printing.
  • nonconcordant — agreeing; harmonious.
  • nonrecordable — Not recordable.
  • nonsense word — a word that has no real meaning
  • nordic skiing — types of skiing in which the heel of the boot is not fixed to the ski, especially cross-country skiing and ski-jumping
  • of many words — talkative
  • of one's word — given to or noted for keeping one's promises
  • on-the-record — on-record.
  • order a drink — When a customer orders a drink, they ask for it to be brought to them.
  • ordered field — Mathematics. a field containing a subset of elements closed under addition and multiplication and having the property that every element in the field is either zero, in the subset, or has its additive inverse in the subset.
  • 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 gain — An ordinary gain is a gain in the course of normal business.
  • ordinary loss — An ordinary loss is a loss in the course of normal business.
  • ordinary wave — Radio. (of the two waves into which a radio wave is divided in the ionosphere under the influence of the earth's magnetic field) the wave with characteristics more nearly resembling those that the undivided wave would have exhibited in the absence of the magnetic field.
  • ordzhonikidze — Also, Orjonikidze. former name of Vladikavkaz.
  • oxford accent — the accent associated with Oxford English
  • oxford theory — the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 1550–1604.
  • pass the word — If you pass the word, you tell someone something that another person has told you.
  • pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
  • photorecorder — a device for making photographic records.
  • play on words — a pun or the act of punning.
  • police record — an official file, held by the police, containing details of any criminal offences committed by an individual
  • primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
  • protochordate — any of the nonvertebrate chordates, as the tunicates, cephalochordates, and hemichordates.
  • record button — the button that you press on a device or remote control to begin recording sound, images, etc
  • record dealer — a person who buys and sells vinyl records
  • record holder — sb officially recorded as best at sth
  • record player — phonograph.
  • record sleeve — the outer covering of a phonograph record
  • recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
  • recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • reserved word — a word in a programming language or computer system that has a fixed meaning and therefore cannot be redefined by a programmer
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