13-letter words containing c, u, r, d
- deserticolous — living or growing in a desert.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- destructively — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- destructivism — the theory that a part of a whole may be considered a principle part if the destruction of that part would lead to the destruction of the whole
- destructivist — a person who holds to the theory of destructivism
- deuteromycete — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
- deuteroscopic — of or relating to deuteroscopy; of second sight
- deutocerebrum — (zoology) The median lobes of the brain of an insect.
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- dextroglucose — dextrose
- diplock court — in Northern Ireland, a court of law designed to try cases linked with terrorism. In order to prevent the intimidation of jurors, the court consists of a single judge and no jury
- direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
- disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
- discount card — a card that entitles the holder to buy goods from a seller at a discount
- discount rate — the rate of interest charged in discounting commercial paper.
- discourtesies — Plural form of discourtesy.
- disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
- disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- diverticulate — of or relating to a diverticulum
- divorce court — a court having jurisdiction over termination of marital relations, as actions for divorce or annulment.
- documentarian — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- 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.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
- dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
- dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- donor country — a country which provides aid to a developing country
- 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.
- dramaturgical — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- dressy casual — (of clothes) informal yet expensive, smart, or stylish
- dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
- dual controls — If a vehicle used by a driving instructor has dual controls, it has pedals on the passenger's side as well as on the driver's side to allow the driving instructor to brake should the learner try to move off when it is dangerous to do so
- dual monarchy — the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
- eta reduction — eta conversion
- extrajudicial — (of a sentence) not legally authorized.
- faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
- federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- 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.
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).