13-letter words containing c, o, d, m, i
- endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
- endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
- epidemiologic — Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
- ethnomedicine — (medicine) traditional folk-medicine.
- eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
- family doctor — a general practitioner.
- film recorder — a photographic device for producing a sound strip on a motion-picture film.
- folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
- geodesic dome — a light, domelike structure developed by R. Buckminster Fuller to combine the properties of the tetrahedron and the sphere and consisting essentially of a grid of compression or tension members lying upon or parallel to great circles running in three directions in any given area, the typical form being the projection upon a sphere of an icosahedron, the triangular faces of which are filled with a symmetrical triangular, hexagonal, or quadrangular grid.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- helicoid cyme — an inflorescence, or cyme, in which each flowering branch gives rise to one lateral branch that is coiled snail-like and then expanded.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- heterodimeric — (chemistry) produced from two similar but different monomers.
- homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
- homoscedastic — having the same variance.
- hydrodynamics — the branch of fluid dynamics that deals with liquids, including hydrostatics and hydrokinetics.
- hypochondrium — either of two regions of the abdomen, situated on each side of the epigastrium and above the lumbar regions.
- hypolipidemic — That reduces the concentration of lipid in blood serum.
- ideogrammatic — Of or pertaining to ideograms.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- idiochromatic — (of a mineral) deriving a characteristic color from its capacity to absorb certain light rays.
- idiomatically — peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect: idiomatic French.
- idiomaticness — Idiomaticity.
- idiorrhythmic — self-regulating; allowing each member to regulate his or her own life
- incident room — An incident room is a room used by the police while they are dealing with a major crime or accident.
- incidentaloma — an abnormal lesion or tumor detected by chance during a medical imaging test, physical examination, or surgery.
- incommodities — Plural form of incommodity.
- incommunicado — (especially of a prisoner) deprived of any communication with others.
- indo-germanic — Indo-European
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
- lacedaemonian — of or relating to ancient Sparta; Spartan.
- lymphoid cell — a cell in the lymph glands that produces leukocytes.
- macrodiagonal — the longer of two diagonals
- macrodynamics — Large-scale dynamics.
- macropinacoid — a crystalline pinacoid which runs parallel to the longer horizontal axis
- magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
- major medical — insurance designed to compensate for particularly large medical expenses due to a severe or prolonged illness, usually by paying a high percentage of medical bills above a certain amount.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- malleoincudal — Of or relating to both the malleus and the incus.
- mastoidectomy — the removal of part of a mastoid process, usually for draining an infection.
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
- medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
- medium octavo — a size of book, about 6 × 9½ inches (15 × 24 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 8vo.
- melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- method acting — film, theater: acting approach