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13-letter words containing c, d

  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
  • france modern — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
  • freckle-faced — having a face conspicuously covered with freckles.
  • frederick iii — 1415–93, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1452–93; as Frederick IV, king of Germany 1440–93.
  • 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.
  • french canada — the areas of Canada, esp in the province of Quebec, where French Canadians predominate
  • french endive — endive (def 2).
  • french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • friction feed — (printer)   A method some printers and plotters use to move paper by rotating one or both of a pair of spring-loaded rubber-coated rollers with the paper sandwiched between them. Friction feed printers are notorious for slipping when the rollers wear out, but can take standard typing paper. For printers with a sheet feeder, friction feed is more appropriate than sprocket feed which requires the holes in the paper to engage with the sprockets of the feed mechanism.
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
  • 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
  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
  • gaidhealtachd — the area of Scotland in which Scottish Gaelic is the vernacular speech
  • galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
  • garden center — a store that sells gardening supplies, as seeds, plants, fertilizer, and tools.
  • garden centre — A garden centre is a large shop, usually with an outdoor area, where you can buy things for your garden such as plants and gardening tools.
  • garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
  • genetic drift — random changes in the frequency of alleles in a gene pool, usually of small populations.
  • gentisic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble compound, C 7 H 6 O 4 , used chiefly in the form of its sodium salt as an analgesic and diaphoretic.
  • geodesic dome — a light, domelike structure developed by R. Buckminster Fuller to combine the properties of the tetrahedron and the sphere and consisting essentially of a grid of compression or tension members lying upon or parallel to great circles running in three directions in any given area, the typical form being the projection upon a sphere of an icosahedron, the triangular faces of which are filled with a symmetrical triangular, hexagonal, or quadrangular grid.
  • geodesic line — the shortest line lying on a given surface and connecting two given points.
  • geohydrologic — relating to geohydrology
  • get-well card — a greeting card sent to a person who is unwell, expressing a wish for a speedy recovery
  • gin and tonic — a drink made with gin and quinine water, served in a tall glass and usually garnished with a slice of lime or lemon.
  • give evidence — testify in a court of law
  • glacial drift — material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.
  • glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
  • glucaric acid — saccharic acid.
  • gluconic acid — a colorless, water-soluble acid, C 6 H 12 O 7 , obtained by the oxidation of glucose, used commercially in a 50-percent solution for cleaning metals.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • 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;
  • glyceric acid — a colorless, syrupy liquid, C 3 H 6 O 4 , obtained by oxidizing glycerol.
  • glycolic acid — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 2 H 4 O 3 , that is a major substrate for photorespiration in plants: used chiefly for textile printing and dyeing and in pesticides.
  • glyconic acid — gluconic acid.
  • glycopeptides — Plural form of glycopeptide.
  • gnathic index — Craniometry. the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed in percent of the latter.
  • god's country — an area or region supposed to be favored by God, especially a naturally beautiful rural area.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
  • good gracious — Some people say good gracious or goodness gracious in order to express surprise or annoyance.
  • good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
  • goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
  • grade cricket — competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades
  • grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
  • grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
  • grand larceny — larceny in which the value of the goods taken is above a certain legally specified amount.
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