13-letter words containing a, d, i, c, t
- indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
- indoctrinated — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
- indoctrinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indoctrinate.
- indoctrinator — One who indoctrinates.
- ineducability — Inability to be educated.
- interchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- intercondylar — Anatomy. the smooth surface area at the end of a bone, forming part of a joint.
- interpandemic — occurring between two pandemics
- intoxicatedly — In an intoxicated fashion; drunkenly.
- intradistrict — Within a single district.
- itaconic acid — a colorless crystalline compound, C 5 H 6 O 4 , obtained by fermentation, soluble in water, alcohol, and acetone: used as an intermediate in the formation of fibers, resins, etc.
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
- lacrimal duct — either of two small ducts extending from the inner corner of each eyelid to the lacrimal sac.
- ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
- lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
- lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
- landing craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
- list enhanced — (operating system, tool) An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
- load the dice — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- macadamia nut — edible seed
- 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.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- mastoidectomy — the removal of part of a mastoid process, usually for draining an infection.
- match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- mean distance — the arithmetic mean of the greatest and least distances of a planet from the sun, used in stating the size of an orbit; the semimajor axis.
- medical audit — a review of the professional standards of doctors, usually within a hospital, conducted by a medical committee
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- medium octavo — a size of book, about 6 × 9½ inches (15 × 24 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 8vo.
- melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- method acting — film, theater: acting approach
- methodistical — Methodistic.
- mid-victorian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle portion (about 1850 to 1890) of the reign of Queen Victoria (reigned 1837–1901) in England: mid-Victorian writers.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- miscalculated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalculate.
- miscalibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalibrate.
- miscoordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- mitochondrial — (cytology) Of, or relating to mitochondria.
- mix and match — made up of complementary elements taken from different sets or sources: a mix-and-match approach to interior decoration.
- mix-and-match — made up of complementary elements taken from different sets or sources: a mix-and-match approach to interior decoration.
- mixed crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
- modifications — Plural form of modification.
- multi-faceted — having many facets, as a gem.