13-letter words containing a, c, e, l, u
- culture clash — a conflict arising from the interaction of people with different cultural values
- culture trait — any trait of human activity acquired in social life and transmitted by communication.
- cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
- curvilinearly — In a curvilinear way.
- custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
- cut-off valve — a valve that terminates the flow of fluid in a system
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
- deculturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- deduplication — (computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
- demasculinise — Alternative spelling of demasculinize.
- demasculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- denticulation — a denticulate structure
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- denuclearized — Simple past tense and past participle of denuclearize.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
- disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
- disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
- diverticulate — of or relating to a diverticulum
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
- double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
- douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
- dressy casual — (of clothes) informal yet expensive, smart, or stylish
- dual alliance — the alliance between France and Russia (1890), strengthened by a military convention (1892–93) and lasting until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
- dual-attached — The form of FDDI interface where a device is connected to both FDDI token-passing rings, so that uninterrupted operation continues in the event of a failure of either of the rings. All connections to the main FDDI rings are dual-attached. Typically, a small number of critical infrastructure devices such as routers and concentrators are dual-attached, whereas host computers are normally single-attached or dual-homed to a router or concentrator. For example, a ring could be formed between a single router and two concentrators (all dual-attached) then all other components that need to be fault-tolerant (typically file servers) can be dual-homed to both concentrators.
- ecumenicalism — the doctrines and practices of the ecumenical movement.
- educationally — pertaining to education.
- effectualness — The state or condition of being effectual.
- efficaciously — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
- encapsulating — Present participle of encapsulate.
- encapsulation — The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
- encourageable — Able to be encouraged; suggestible.
- encouragingly — In an encouraging manner.
- enculturating — Present participle of enculturate.
- enculturation — The gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group by a person, another culture, etc.
- endonucleases — Plural form of endonuclease.
- equimolecular — (chemistry) Containing the same number of molecules (of two or more compounds).
- equinoctially — In an equinoctial manner; relative to the equinox.
- equivalencing — Present participle of equivalence.
- equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
- escape clause — clause that releases sb from a contract