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13-letter words containing ld

  • old pretender — a member of the royal family that ruled in Scotland from 1371 to 1714 and in England from 1603 to 1714.
  • old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
  • old ritualist — Raskolnik.
  • old stone age — the Paleolithic period.
  • old testament — the first of the two main divisions of the Christian Bible, comprising the Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa. In the Vulgate translation all but two books of the Apocrypha are included in the Old Testament.
  • old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
  • olduvai gorge — a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
  • 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.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
  • patent holder — a person or company that holds a patent
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • playing field — an expanse of level ground, as in a park or stadium, where athletic events are held.
  • put it mildly — You use to put it mildly to indicate that you are describing something in language that is much less strong, direct, or critical than what you really think.
  • record holder — sb officially recorded as best at sth
  • right fielder — the player whose position is right field.
  • rube goldberg — having a fantastically complicated, improvised appearance: a Rube Goldberg arrangement of flasks and test tubes.
  • san ildefonso — a town in central Spain, near Segovia: termed the “Spanish Versailles” for its 18th-century palace (La Granja) treaty 1800.
  • schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
  • scissors hold — a wrestling hold in which one contestant clasps the other with the legs
  • scottish fold — a breed of medium-sized short-haired cat with folded ears
  • shield bearer — an attendant who carries the shield or arms of a warrior.
  • shoulder arms — to bring the rifle vertically close to the right side with the muzzle uppermost and held at the trigger guard
  • shoulder knot — a knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder, as by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th centuries, by servants in livery, or by women or children.
  • shoulder loop — a flap on each shoulder of a service uniform on which metallic insignia of rank are worn by commissioned and warrant officers in the Army, Air Force, and Marines.
  • shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
  • small holding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
  • sow wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
  • taylor's gold — a variety of pear from New Zealand
  • teledildonics — a technology supposedly enabling two or more people to engage in sexual activity remotely
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • the new world — the Americas; the western hemisphere
  • third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
  • three old cat — three-a-cat.
  • threefoldness — the state or condition of being threefold
  • ticket holder — a person who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey on public transport
  • to hold court — If someone holds court in a place, they are surrounded by a lot of people who are paying them a lot of attention because they are interesting or famous.
  • to hold forth — If you hold forth on a subject, you speak confidently and for a long time about it, especially to a group of people.
  • unblindfolded — not blindfolded
  • underwithhold — to withhold too little.
  • unsoldierlike — not befitting a soldier
  • unwithholding — not withholding; giving freely
  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • waldorf salad — a salad of celery, diced apples, nuts, and mayonnaise.
  • waltz matilda — to travel the road carrying one's swag
  • water soldier — an aquatic plant, Stratiotes aloides, of Europe and NW Asia, having rosettes of large leaves and large three-petalled white flowers: family Hydrocharitaceae
  • welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
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