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13-letter words containing ld

  • cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
  • could do with — If you say that you could do with something, you mean that you need it or would benefit from it.
  • coulomb field — the electrostatic field around an electrically charged body or particle
  • crown molding — decorative ceiling trim
  • culdocentesis — (medicine) A diagnostic procedure in which fluid from the rectouterine pouch is extracted, via the vagina, using a needle.
  • current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
  • das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • de ghelderode — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), 1898–1962, Belgian dramatist.
  • dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
  • dirty old man — a mature or elderly man with lewd or obscene preoccupations.
  • donald cherry — Donald Eugene ("Don") 1936–95, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
  • enfield rifle — a breech-loading bolt-action magazine rifle, usually .303 calibre, used by the British army until World War II and by other countries
  • fanfold paper — continuous paper perforated at regular intervals, as used in a dot-matrix printer
  • feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
  • field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
  • field captain — a member of a team taking active part in a game who is authorized to make decisions for the team, especially in regard to planning plays, deciding whether to accept penalties called by an official against the opponents, etc.
  • field cricket — any of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in pastures and meadows (field cricket) or on trees and shrubs (tree cricket)
  • field glasses — Usually, field glasses. binoculars for use out of doors.
  • field kitchen — the place at which the food for a unit of soldiers in the field is prepared
  • field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
  • field of fire — the area covered by a weapon or group of weapons firing from a given position.
  • field of view — field (def 13).
  • field officer — an officer holding a field grade.
  • field service — military service performed in the field
  • field servoid — (jargon, abuse)   /fee'ld ser'voyd/ A play on "android", a derogatory term for a representative of a field service organisation (see field circus), suggesting an unintelligent rule-driven approach to servicing computer hardware.
  • field spaniel — one of a British breed of spaniels having a flat or slightly waved, usually black coat, used for hunting and retrieving game.
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • field winding — the electrically conducting circuit, usually a number of coils wound on individual poles and connected in series, that produces the magnetic field in a motor or generator.
  • field-glasses — Field-glasses are the same as binoculars.
  • fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
  • flodden field — a hill in Northumberland where invading Scots were defeated by the English in 1513 and James IV of Scotland was killed
  • fold function — (programming)   In functional programming, fold or "reduce" is a kind of higher-order function that takes as arguments a function, an initial "accumulator" value and a data structure (often a list). In Haskell, the two flavours of fold for lists, called foldl and foldr are defined like this: foldl :: (a -> b -> a) -> a -> [b] -> a foldl f z [] = z foldl f z (x:xs) = foldl f (f z x) xs foldr :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> [a] -> b foldr f z [] = z foldr f z (x:xs) = f x (foldr f z xs) In both cases, if the input list is empty, the result is the value of the accumulator, z. If not, foldl takes the head of the list, x, and returns the result of recursing on the tail of the list using (f z x) as the new z. foldr returns (f x q) where q is the result of recursing on the tail. The "l" and "r" in the names refer to the associativity of the application of f. Thus if f = (+) (the binary plus operator used as a function of two arguments), we have: foldl (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = (((0 + 1) + 2) + 3 (applying + left associatively) and foldr (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = 0 + (1 + (2 + 3)) (applying + right associatively). For +, this makes no difference but for an non-commutative operator it would.
  • folded dipole — a type of aerial, widely used with television and VHF radio receivers, consisting of two parallel dipoles connected together at their outer ends and fed at the centre of one of them. The length is usually half the operating wavelength
  • folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
  • folding money — paper money.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
  • for the world — If you say that you would not do something for the world, you are emphasizing that you definitely would not do it.
  • forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
  • gild the lily — to coat with gold, gold leaf, or a gold-colored substance.
  • gold chloride — a yellow to red, water-soluble compound, AuCl 3 , used chiefly in photography, gilding ceramic ware and glass, and in the manufacture of purple of Cassius.
  • gold standard — a monetary system with gold of specified weight and fineness as the unit of value.
  • golden fleece — a fleece of pure gold, kept at Colchis by King Aeëtes from whom it was stolen by Jason and the Argonauts with the help of Aeëtes's daughter, Medea.
  • golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
  • golden oriole — an Old World oriole, Oriolus oriolus, the male of which is bright yellow with black wings.
  • golden plover — either of two plovers of the genus Pluvialis, having the back marked with golden-yellow spots, P. apricaria, of Europe, or P. dominica, of America.
  • golden remedy — a very successful way of dealing with a problem
  • golden shiner — a small, silvery freshwater minnow, Notemigonus crysoleucas, native to eastern North America and introduced into western North America: often used as live bait in sport fishing.
  • golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
  • golden valley — a town in SE Minnesota.
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