13-letter words containing a, d, c, m
- family doctor — a general practitioner.
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
- france modern — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
- freedom march — an organized march protesting a government's restriction of or lack of support for civil rights, especially such a march in support of racial integration in the U.S. in the 1960s.
- fulminic acid — an unstable acid, CNOH, isomeric with cyanic acid, and known only in the form of its salts.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- glutamic acid — an amino acid, HOOCCH 2 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, obtained by hydrolysis from wheat gluten and sugar-beet residues, used commercially chiefly in the form of its sodium salt to intensify the flavor of meat or other food. Symbol: E. Abbreviation: Glu;
- grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- handcraftsman — A handicraftsman.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
- homestead act — a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
- homoscedastic — having the same variance.
- humped cattle — any of several breeds of domestic cattle developed from the Indian species Bos indicus and characterized by a hump of fat and muscle over the shoulders.
- hydraulic ram — a device by which the energy of descending water is utilized to raise a part of the water to a height greater than that of the source.
- hydrodynamics — the branch of fluid dynamics that deals with liquids, including hydrostatics and hydrokinetics.
- ideogrammatic — Of or pertaining to ideograms.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- idiochromatic — (of a mineral) deriving a characteristic color from its capacity to absorb certain light rays.
- idiomatically — peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect: idiomatic French.
- idiomaticness — Idiomaticity.
- impredicative — (of a definition) given in terms that require quantification over a range that includes that which is to be defined, as having all the properties of a great general where one of the properties as ascribed must be that property itself
- impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
- incidentaloma — an abnormal lesion or tumor detected by chance during a medical imaging test, physical examination, or surgery.
- incommunicado — (especially of a prisoner) deprived of any communication with others.
- indeterminacy — the condition or quality of being indeterminate; indetermination.
- indo-germanic — Indo-European
- interpandemic — occurring between two pandemics
- jacquard loom — a loom for producing elaborate designs in an intricate weave (Jacquard weave) constructed from a variety of basic weaves.
- judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
- judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
- lacedaemonian — of or relating to ancient Sparta; Spartan.
- lacrimal duct — either of two small ducts extending from the inner corner of each eyelid to the lacrimal sac.
- lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
- lucid dreamer — a person who has lucid dreams, either naturally or as a result of training
- macadamia nut — edible seed
- machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
- macrodiagonal — the longer of two diagonals
- macrodynamics — Large-scale dynamics.
- macropinacoid — a crystalline pinacoid which runs parallel to the longer horizontal axis
- madeira sauce — a savoury sauce made with Madeira wine and served with meat
- magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- magnetic head — head (def 33).
- magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
- maiden castle — an ancient fortification in Dorsetshire, England, first erected c250 b.c. over the remains of Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements of c2000–c1500 b.c.
- maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.