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12-letter words containing ld

  • landholdings — Plural form of landholding.
  • lauraldehyde — lauric aldehyde.
  • left fielder — the player whose position is left field.
  • leopoldville — former name of Kinshasa.
  • macclesfield — a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop: 50 688 (2001)
  • manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
  • medal-holder — a person who has won a medal
  • men-children — plural of man-child.
  • molded depth — the depth of a vessel at the broadest transverse section from the top of the keel to the upper side of the main deck beam at the side.
  • mouldability — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
  • nether world — the infernal regions; hell.
  • netherworlds — Plural form of netherworld.
  • non-yielding — inclined to give in; submissive; compliant: a timid, yielding man.
  • nordenskjold — Baron Nils Adolf Erik [nils ah-dawlf ey-rik] /nɪls ˈɑ dɔlf ˈeɪ rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1832–1901, Swedish arctic explorer, geographer, and geologist; born in Finland.
  • officeholder — a person filling a governmental position; public official.
  • old believer — Raskolnik.
  • old catholic — a member of any of several European churches professing to be truly Catholic but rejecting certain modern Roman Catholic doctrines, dogmas, and practices, especially the dogma of papal infallibility.
  • old chestnut — old saying, cliché
  • old covenant — the covenant between God and the ancient Israelites, based on the Mosaic Law.
  • old dominion — the state of Virginia (used as a nickname).
  • old faithful — one of the best known geysers of Yellowstone National Park.
  • old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
  • old guardism — political conservatism.
  • old identity — a person known for a long time in the one locality
  • old mine cut — a brilliant cut, common in the 19th century, retaining a relatively high proportion of the original stone and having a large culet and small table compared to modern brilliants.
  • old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
  • old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.
  • old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
  • oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
  • otherworldly — of, relating to, or devoted to another world, as the world of imagination or the world to come.
  • out-building — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
  • outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
  • overboldness — The state or fact of being too bold; audacity.
  • overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
  • overwithhold — to withhold too much.
  • perez galdos — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Spanish be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Spanish bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1843–1920, Spanish journalist, dramatist, and novelist.
  • picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
  • place-holder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
  • policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
  • poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
  • pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • recordholder — a person or thing recognized for the accomplishment of a feat to a better or greater degree than any other.
  • reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
  • rijksdaalder — a cupronickel or silver coin of the Netherlands, equal to 2½ guilders.
  • ripe old age — advanced age
  • ruling elder — an elder in a Presbyterian church.
  • scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
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