12-letter words containing d, e, a, u, c
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- equidistance — (uncountable) Equal distance.
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
- fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
- ferulic acid — a compound, C 10 H 10 O 4 , found in small amounts in lants, that occurs in two isomers, one a yellow oily liquid and the other crystalline.
- fluidextract — 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.
- food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- fused silica — glass made entirely from silica, having a very low rate of thermal expansion.
- gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground cedar — a ground pine, Lycopodium complanatum.
- grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
- hallucinated — Simple past tense and past participle of hallucinate.
- hard-surface — to make the surface of (something) hard or firm, as by compacting or paving it: to hard-surface a parking area.
- head lettuce — any variety of the lettuce subspecies Lactuca sativa capitata, having leaves that grow in a dense rosette, especially iceberg lettuce and Boston lettuce.
- huffman code — Huffman coding
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
- in duplicate — in two copies, times two
- inadequacies — Plural form of inadequacy.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- induced drag — the drag force generated in the production of lift.
- inexactitude — the quality or state of being inexact or inaccurate; inexactness.
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- juan de fuca — a strait between Vancouver Island and NW Washington. 100 miles (160 km) long; 15–20 miles (24–32 km) wide.
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- ketoaciduria — (pathology) The presence of (excess) ketoacids in the urine.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- ladder truck — hook and ladder.
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- matriculated — Be enrolled at a college or university.
- mauve decade — the 1890s, considered as a social and cultural period characterized by prosperity and complacency.
- mcleod gauge — a device for determining very low gas pressures by manometrically measuring the pressure of a sample after its compression to a known fraction of its original volume.
- media circus — excessive news coverage
- medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- miracle drug — wonder drug.
- miseducation — to educate improperly.
- moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- multidecadal — Involving multiple decades.
- multifaceted — Having many facets.