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13-letter words containing lan

  • shetland pony — one of a breed of small but sturdy, rough-coated ponies, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
  • shipping lane — sea lane.
  • sign language — Also called sign. any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people.
  • solan (goose) — gannet
  • south holland — a province in the SW Netherlands. 1086 sq. mi. (2810 sq. km). Capital: The Hague.
  • space blanket — a plastic insulating body wrapping coated on one or both sides with aluminium foil which reflects back most of the body heat lost by radiation: carried by climbers, mountaineers, etc, for use in cases of exposure or exhaustion
  • speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
  • spice islands — the Moluccas
  • splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
  • splanchnology — the visceral system
  • spotter plane — an aircraft used in observing enemy movements or the accuracy of fire on a target
  • staten island — an island facing New York Bay.
  • stone lantern — (in Japan) an intricately carved lantern of stone, often placed in a garden or before a shrine.
  • sublanceolate — (of leaves, etc) almost spear-shaped
  • sunda islands — a chain of islands in the Malay Archipelago, consisting of the Greater Sunda Islands (chiefly Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Sulawesi) and Nusa Tenggara (the Lesser Sunda Islands)
  • supplantation — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
  • tangent plane — tangent (def 4).
  • tapioca-plant — the cassava, Manihot esculenta.
  • the fast lane — If you say that someone lives their life in the fast lane, you mean that they live in a way which seems full of activity and excitement but which often involves a lot of pressure.
  • the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
  • thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
  • thyroid gland — a two-lobed endocrine gland, located at the base of the neck that secretes two hormones that regulate the rates of metabolism, growth, and development.
  • tobacco plant — any of numerous solanaceous plants of the genus Nicotiana, having mildly narcotic properties, tapering hairy leaves, and tubular or funnel-shaped fragrant flowers. The species N. tabacum is cultivated as the chief source of commercial tobacco
  • tone language — a language, as Swedish, Chinese, Yoruba, or Serbo-Croatian, in which words that are otherwise phonologically identical are distinguished by having different pitches or pitch contour.
  • toque blanche — the tall white hat traditionally worn by a chef
  • town planning — city planning.
  • townsend plan — a pension plan, proposed in the U.S. in 1934 but never passed by Congress, that would have awarded $200 monthly to persons over 60 who were no longer gainfully employed, provided that such allowance was spent in the U.S. within 30 days.
  • trade balance — balance of trade.
  • transatlantic — crossing or reaching across the Atlantic: a transatlantic liner.
  • trial balance — a statement of all the open debit and credit items, made preliminary to balancing a double-entry ledger.
  • trigger plant — any of several small grasslike plants of the genus Stylidium, having sensitive stamens that are erected when disturbed: family Stylidiaceae
  • under-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • unexplanatory — serving to explain: an explanatory footnote.
  • unicorn plant — a North American plant, Proboscidea (Martynia) louisianica, having creamy-white to red flowers blotched with purple, and a woody capsule with a long, curved beak.
  • unimak island — an island in SW Alaska, in the E part of the Aleutian Islands: largest and easternmost of the Aleutian Islands. About 70 miles (110 km) long and 20 miles (32 km) wide.
  • upland cotton — a plant, Gossypium hirsutum, of warm regions of the New World, that is the chief commercial cotton crop in the U.S.
  • upland plover — a large, field-inhabiting sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, of eastern North America, resembling a plover: now protected and increasing in numbers.
  • urban planner — a person who plans and designs urban areas
  • vanilla plant — a composite plant, Trilisa odoratissima (or Carphephorus odoratissimus), of the southeastern U.S., having purplish flower heads and vanilla-scented leaves used to flavor tobacco.
  • vashon island — an island in Puget Sound, W central Washington, between Seattle and Tacoma. 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km).
  • vasostimulant — stimulating the action of the vasomotor nerves.
  • victoria land — a region in Antarctica, bordering on the Ross Sea, mainly in Ross Dependency.
  • virginia plan — a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.
  • vraisemblance — verisimilitude; appearance of truth
  • well-balanced — rightly balanced, adjusted, or regulated: a well-balanced diet.
  • welland canal — a ship canal in S Canada, in Ontario, connecting Lakes Erie and Ontario: 8 locks. 25 miles (40 km) long.
  • west atlantic — a group of languages of W Africa constituting a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, and including Fulani and Wolof.
  • west flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1249 sq. mi. (3235 sq. km). Capital: Bruges.
  • west midlands — a metropolitan county in central England. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
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