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13-letter words containing c, o, d, l, e, r

  • directorially — In terms of film direction.
  • dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
  • 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.
  • dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
  • domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
  • donald cherry — Donald Eugene ("Don") 1936–95, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
  • double-decker — something with two decks, tiers, or the like, as two beds one above the other, a ship with two decks above the water line, or a bus with two decks.
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • electioneered — Simple past tense and past participle of electioneer.
  • electrodermal — Of or relating to measurement of the electrical conductivity of the skin, especially as an indicator of someone’s emotional responses.
  • electroformed — Produced, or modified by electroforming.
  • electroplated — Simple past tense and past participle of electroplate.
  • endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
  • endocrinology — The branch of physiology and medicine concerned with endocrine glands and hormones.
  • epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
  • 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.
  • flesh-colored — Something that is flesh-colored is yellowish pink in color.
  • foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
  • forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
  • horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
  • hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hydroelectric — pertaining to the generation and distribution of electricity derived from the energy of falling water or any other hydraulic source.
  • hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
  • ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
  • incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • interchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • intercondylar — Anatomy. the smooth surface area at the end of a bone, forming part of a joint.
  • l-d converter — a vessel in which steel is made from pig iron by blowing oxygen into the molten metal through a water-cooled tube
  • ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
  • lepidocrocite — a ruby-red to reddish-brown orthorhombic mineral, iron oxyhydroxide, FeO(OH), dimorphous with goethite: an ore of iron, used as a pigment.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • lexical order — the arrangement of a set of items in accordance with a recursive algorithm, such as the entries in a dictionary whose order depends on their first letter unless these are the same in which case it is the second which decides, and so on
  • london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
  • 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
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