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13-letter words containing c, o, r, n, d, g

  • democratizing — Present participle of democratize.
  • dendroecology — The science that uses dendrochronology to analyze historic ecological processes.
  • dendrological — Of, pertaining to dendrology.
  • dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
  • depressogenic — Causing or tending to cause depression.
  • discomforting — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disconcerting — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
  • disconfirming — Not confirming.
  • driving force — impetus
  • endocrinology — The branch of physiology and medicine concerned with endocrine glands and hormones.
  • 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.
  • garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • god's country — an area or region supposed to be favored by God, especially a naturally beautiful rural area.
  • gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
  • good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
  • granodioritic — relating to granodiorite
  • ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
  • ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
  • ground colour — a colour on which other colours are superimposed to create a pattern
  • ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
  • 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.
  • hydrocracking — the cracking of petroleum or the like in the presence of hydrogen.
  • 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.
  • indo-germanic — Indo-European
  • kangaroo code — spaghetti code
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • macrodiagonal — the longer of two diagonals
  • matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
  • micr encoding — The MICR encoding of a check is the magnetic ink pattern at the bottom that can be scanned and that contains information about the check.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • misrecognized — Simple past tense and past participle of misrecognize.
  • monoglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of one hydroxyl group with a fatty acid.
  • nonadrenergic — Not adrenergic.
  • nondecreasing — not decreasing.
  • noradrenergic — Having the quality of noradrenaline.
  • 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
  • oceanic ridge — any section of the narrow, largely continuous range of submarine mountains that extends into all the major oceans and at which new oceanic lithosphere is created by the rise of magma from the earth's interior
  • pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
  • preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
  • recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
  • recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
  • ring compound — a compound whose structural formula contains a closed chain or ring of atoms; a cyclic compound. Compare cyclic (def 3).
  • road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
  • robot dancing — a dance of the 1980s characterized by jerky mechanical movements
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