13-letter words containing a, n, e, u, r, i
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- east prussian — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- encouragingly — In an encouraging manner.
- encrustations — Plural form of encrustation.
- 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.
- enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
- equalitarians — Plural form of equalitarian.
- equestrianism — The skill or sport of horse riding . As an Olympic sport it is divided into three disciplines: show jumping, dressage, and the three-day event (combining show jumping, dressage, and cross-country riding).
- equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
- equilibration — The formation, or maintenance, of an equilibrium.
- equipartition — the equal division of the energy of a system in thermal equilibrium between different degrees of freedom. This principle was assumed to be exact in classical physics, but quantum theory shows that it is true only in certain special cases
- equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
- equiponderate — To counterbalance.
- eta reduction — eta conversion
- eusporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a group of cells, rather than a single cell, and with no specialized dispersal of spores
- faerie queene — a chivalric romance in verse (1590–96) by Edmund Spenser.
- fairy penguin — a small penguin, Eudyptula minor, with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coast
- ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
- ferrotitanium — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent titanium.
- ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
- fiddle around — waste time doing sth trivial
- fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour) A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
- fish geranium — zonal geranium.
- flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- french guiana — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
- french guinea — former name of Guinea.
- frequentation — the practice of frequenting; habit of visiting often.
- frequentative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing repetition of an action.
- freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
- frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
- fulani empire — a powerful W African Muslim state that flourished in the 19th century in the area of present-day Nigeria.
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
- furniture van — a van designed to move the furniture of a house, office, etc, to another place
- gap insurance — GAP insurance pays the difference between what someone owes on their car loan and the actual cash value of the vehicle in the event that it is stolen or damaged.
- garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
- gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
- general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
- genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules