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13-letter words containing c, h, e, s, a, d

  • discographies — Plural form of discography.
  • disenchanting — Present participle of disenchant.
  • disfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of disfranchise.
  • disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
  • dispatch case — attaché case.
  • dodecahedrons — Plural form of dodecahedron.
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • dreamcatchers — Plural form of dreamcatcher.
  • dresden china — porcelain ware produced at Meissen, Germany, near Dresden, after 1710.
  • dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
  • edam (cheese) — a mild, yellow cheese, made in a round mold and usually having a coating of red paraffin
  • fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
  • finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
  • fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
  • haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
  • hand-stitched — stitched by hand rather than by a machine
  • handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
  • henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
  • hexadactylous — hexadactylic
  • 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.
  • hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • 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.
  • maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
  • merchandisers — Plural form of merchandiser.
  • merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • methodistical — Methodistic.
  • niedersachsen — German name of Lower Saxony.
  • open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
  • pas de cheval — a step in which the dancer hops on one foot and paws the ground with the other.
  • passchendaele — a village in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: the scene of heavy fighting during the third battle of Ypres in World War I during which 245 000 British troops were lost
  • phase encoded — (storage)   (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
  • sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
  • sacred thread — a cord worn by Hindus of the three upper castes as a sign of being twice-born or initiated into the Vedas.
  • saddle-stitch — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • sandwich beam — flitch beam.
  • sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
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