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13-letter words containing c, i, u, d

  • hydraulic ram — a device by which the energy of descending water is utilized to raise a part of the water to a height greater than that of the source.
  • hydraulically — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
  • hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
  • hypochondrium — either of two regions of the abdomen, situated on each side of the epigastrium and above the lumbar regions.
  • hypoeutectoid — (of steel) having less carbon than the 0.8 percent of eutectoid steel.
  • in difficulty — If you are in difficulty or in difficulties, you are having a lot of problems.
  • in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
  • in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
  • inarticulated — Not articulated; not connected by a joint.
  • incommunicado — (especially of a prisoner) deprived of any communication with others.
  • inconcludable — Impossible to conclude; unfinishable.
  • 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.
  • indiscussible — unsuitable for or not subject or open to discussion; not negotiable.
  • 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.
  • ineducability — Inability to be educated.
  • injudiciously — not judicious; showing lack of judgment; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet: an injudicious decision.
  • 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.
  • introductions — Plural form of introduction.
  • jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
  • joint custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which two or more people share responsibility.
  • judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
  • judicial sale — a forced sale of property authorized or required by a court of law in order to satisfy a debt etc
  • judiciousness — The state of being judicious.
  • junior doctor — a doctor in postgraduate training
  • jurisdictions — Plural form of jurisdiction.
  • jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
  • kirkcudbright — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • lacrimal duct — either of two small ducts extending from the inner corner of each eyelid to the lacrimal sac.
  • launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
  • launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
  • loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
  • lucid dreamer — a person who has lucid dreams, either naturally or as a result of training
  • ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
  • macadamia nut — edible seed
  • machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
  • madeira sauce — a savoury sauce made with Madeira wine and served with meat
  • magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • malleoincudal — Of or relating to both the malleus and the incus.
  • mandarin duck — a crested Asian duck, Aix galericulata, having variegated purple, green, chestnut, and white plumage.
  • 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
  • medical audit — a review of the professional standards of doctors, usually within a hospital, conducted by a medical committee
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