13-letter words containing c, o, d, n, s
- noncondensing — Not condensing; of a steam engine, discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser.
- nondecreasing — not decreasing.
- nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
- nondisclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
- nondiscursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- nonprescribed — Not prescribed.
- nonrestricted — confined; limited.
- nonscandalous — Not scandalous.
- nonstructured — not structured; unstructured
- nordic skiing — types of skiing in which the heel of the boot is not fixed to the ski, especially cross-country skiing and ski-jumping
- nucleocapsids — Plural form of nucleocapsid.
- nudist colony — a place where group of nudists live together separated from the rest of the community
- occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
- odontoblastic — Relating to odontoblasts.
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- opsonic index — the ratio of the number of bacteria destroyed by phagocytes in the blood of a test patient to the number destroyed in the blood of a normal individual
- optical sound — sound recorded on and subsequently played back from an optical or photographic soundtrack, as opposed to a magnetic soundtrack.
- ordinal scale — a scale on which data is shown simply in order of magnitude since there is no standard of measurement of differences: for instance, a squash ladder is an ordinal scale since one can say only that one person is better than another, but not by how much
- outdistancing — Present participle of outdistance.
- pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
- phase encoded — (storage) (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
- phonendoscope — an instrument that amplifies small sounds, esp within the human body
- photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- post-actinide — transactinide
- postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- prediscussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- pros and cons — The pros and cons of something are its advantages and disadvantages, which you consider carefully so that you can make a sensible decision.
- pseudoscience — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
- psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- pycnidiospore — the fruiting body of certain fungi, which contains spore-bearing cells
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
- random access — designating or of a volatile memory that allows data to be accessed directly and does not require following a sequence of storage locations
- random-access — direct-access.
- reconsecrated — to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
- reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- reconstituted — constituted again, especially of a liquid product made by adding water to dry solids from which the water has been evaporated: reconstituted orange juice.
- rectitudinous — characterized by or given to rectitude.
- redescription — the act of redescribing
- riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
- sacred baboon — hamadryas baboon.
- sandwich coin — a coin having a layer of one metal between outside layers of another, as a quarter with a layer of copper between layers of silver.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- sarcodinians' — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- 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.
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.