13-letter words containing d, e, a, c
- nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
- niçoise salad — salade niçoise
- niedersachsen — German name of Lower Saxony.
- nits-and-lice — a yellow-flowered plant, Hypericum drummondii, of the central U.S.
- no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
- non-adherence — the quality of adhering; steady devotion, support, allegiance, or attachment: adherence to a party; rigid adherence to rules.
- non-dedicated — wholly committed to something, as to an ideal, political cause, or personal goal: a dedicated artist.
- non-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- non-dialectic — of, relating to, or of the nature of logical argumentation.
- non-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- non-euclidean — differing from the postulates of Euclid or based upon postulates other than those of Euclid.
- non-medicinal — of, relating to, or having the properties of a medicine; curative; remedial: medicinal properties; medicinal substances.
- nonaccidental — not accidental, intentional
- nonaccredited — not accredited, lacking certain credentials
- nonadolescent — Not adolescent.
- nonadrenergic — Not adrenergic.
- nonassociated — (of natural gas) not associated with a deposit of crude oil
- nonattendance — failure to attend: Members of the society can be dropped for chronic nonattendance.
- noncarbonated — Not carbonated; lacking carbonation.
- nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
- nonconjugated — not conjugated
- noncultivated — relating to natural resources that are not under institutional or managed cultivation
- nondecreasing — not decreasing.
- nondemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- nondetachable — Not capable of being detached.
- nonincidental — happening or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate conjunction with something else.
- nonmechanized — Unmechanized.
- nonperiodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
- nonrecordable — Not recordable.
- noradrenergic — Having the quality of noradrenaline.
- nucleic acids — any of a group of long, linear macromolecules, either DNA or various types of RNA, that carry genetic information directing all cellular functions: composed of linked nucleotides.
- nucleocapsids — Plural form of nucleocapsid.
- occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
- occidentalize — to make Occidental.
- 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
- old icelandic — Old Norse as used in Iceland. Abbreviation: OIcel.
- old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
- once and away — conclusively
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- optical drive — optical disk drive
- optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
- orchard valve — an alfalfa valve of lesser diameter than the pipe it closes.
- 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
- orsellic acid — an acid found in lichens
- orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
- ottawa euclid — Euclid
- outrecuidance — (archaic) Presumption, arrogance, self-conceit.
- over-educated — to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
- overabundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overallocated — Allocated in excess.