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13-letter words containing c, e, r, n, u, d

  • cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
  • cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
  • cut-and-dried — prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
  • cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
  • decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
  • deconstructed — having no formal structure
  • deconstructor — an adherent to the theory of deconstruction
  • deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
  • demanufacture — A process of recycling that involves the dismantling and/or disassembly of an item to gain the maximum amount of recyclable materials.
  • demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).
  • 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
  • discount rate — the rate of interest charged in discounting commercial paper.
  • disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
  • dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
  • documentarian — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
  • 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.
  • documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
  • eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
  • eta reduction — eta conversion
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
  • ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
  • ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
  • ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • h and d curve — characteristic curve.
  • hard currency — money that is backed by gold reserves and is readily convertible into foreign currencies.
  • here document — (operating system)   Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
  • horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
  • in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
  • inarticulated — Not articulated; not connected by a joint.
  • incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indirect jump — (programming)   A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
  • indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
  • inner product — Also called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
  • introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
  • jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
  • knuckle under — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
  • knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
  • magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • many-coloured — having many colours
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
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