13-letter words containing c, o, d, i, r
- economy drive — a campaign by the government or a firm to reduce expenditure and make savings
- electioneered — Simple past tense and past participle of electioneer.
- enantiodromic — relating to enantiodromia
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- endocrinology — The branch of physiology and medicine concerned with endocrine glands and hormones.
- endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
- endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
- epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
- eta reduction — eta conversion
- exotic dancer — a striptease dancer or belly dancer
- export credit — a loan extended to an importer by a bank in the country of the exporter in order to finance an export operation
- family doctor — a general practitioner.
- field officer — an officer holding a field grade.
- film recorder — a photographic device for producing a sound strip on a motion-picture film.
- firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
- flying doctor — a doctor listed with local authorities as willing to be flown to remote areas to give emergency medical care.
- folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- geohydrologic — relating to geohydrology
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- 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.
- 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
- granodioritic — relating to granodiorite
- gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
- 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.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- 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.
- heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
- heterodimeric — (chemistry) produced from two similar but different monomers.
- high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
- hydrochloride — a salt, especially of an alkaloid, formed by the direct union of hydrochloric acid with an organic base that makes the organic constituent more soluble.
- hydrocolloids — Plural form of hydrocolloid.
- hydrocracking — the cracking of petroleum or the like in the presence of hydrogen.
- hydrodynamics — the branch of fluid dynamics that deals with liquids, including hydrostatics and hydrokinetics.
- hydroelectric — pertaining to the generation and distribution of electricity derived from the energy of falling water or any other hydraulic source.
- hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- hydropathical — Alternative form of hydropathic.
- hydrostatical — Alternative form of hydrostatic.
- hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.