13-letter words containing c, o, l, e, d, u
- deliciousness — highly pleasing to the senses, especially to taste or smell: a delicious dinner; a delicious aroma.
- denticulation — a denticulate structure
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- desert locust — a migratory locust, Schistocerca gregaria, of North Africa and Asia, associated with the plagues described in the Old Testament.
- deserticolous — living or growing in a desert.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- dextroglucose — dextrose
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
- discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
- discounselled — lacking support or counsel
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- 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.
- double bounce — (of the ball in tennis, table tennis, etc) two bounces on the same side of the net before a return
- double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
- double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
- double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
- double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
- 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.
- double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
- educationally — pertaining to education.
- endonucleases — Plural form of endonuclease.
- eudicotyledon — any plant belonging to one of the two major groups of flowering plants, comprising over 60 per cent of all plants, normally having net-veined leaves and two cotyledons in the seed
- federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
- 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
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- 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.
- hexadactylous — hexadactylic
- 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.
- 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.
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
- 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.
- inconcludable — Impossible to conclude; unfinishable.
- incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
- juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
- language code — (human language, standard) A set of standard names and abbreviations maintained by ISO for identifying human languages, natural and invented, past and present. Each language has a list of English and French names and an ISO 639-2 three-letter code. Some also have an ISO 639-1 two-letter code. The list even includes the Klingon language from the Star Trek science fiction series. There are also country codes.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- leucodepleted — of or denoting blood from which the white cells have been removed
- 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
- ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.