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13-letter words containing d, c, s

  • excandescence — The state of being excandescent, of glowing with heat.
  • excess demand — a situation in which the market demand for a commodity is greater than its market supply, thus causing its market price to rise
  • excise duties — the tax payable on certain goods, such as alcohol, cigarettes, fuel
  • exercise yard — a piece of enclosed ground in a prison on which inmates can exercise in order to get fit and to remain healthy
  • feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
  • fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
  • fiddlesticks! — an expression of annoyance or disagreement
  • fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
  • field service — military service performed in the field
  • fin de siecle — the end of the 19th century.
  • finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
  • fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • flesh-colored — Something that is flesh-colored is yellowish pink in color.
  • 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.
  • galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
  • gentisic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble compound, C 7 H 6 O 4 , used chiefly in the form of its sodium salt as an analgesic and diaphoretic.
  • 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.
  • geodesic line — the shortest line lying on a given surface and connecting two given points.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • glycopeptides — Plural form of glycopeptide.
  • god's country — an area or region supposed to be favored by God, especially a naturally beautiful rural area.
  • good gracious — Some people say good gracious or goodness gracious in order to express surprise or annoyance.
  • goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
  • grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
  • graphics card — graphics adaptor
  • 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.
  • gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
  • haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
  • hand controls — a set of controls in some cars, operated by hand, that have the same function as the accelerator, brake, and clutch pedals
  • hand-stitched — stitched by hand rather than by a machine
  • handcraftsman — A handicraftsman.
  • handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • harishchandra — also known as Bharatendu. 1850–85, Indian poet, dramatist, and essayist, who established Hindi as a literary language
  • hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
  • henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
  • herd instinct — the impulse or tendency toward clustering or acting in a group, especially the presumed instinct toward or need for gregariousness and conformity.
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
  • hexadactylous — hexadactylic
  • homestead act — a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
  • homoscedastic — having the same variance.
  • horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
  • hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
  • 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.
  • hydrocolloids — Plural form of hydrocolloid.
  • hydrodynamics — the branch of fluid dynamics that deals with liquids, including hydrostatics and hydrokinetics.
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • hydrostatical — Alternative form of hydrostatic.
  • hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
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