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13-letter words containing d, e, c, a, s, t

  • fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • 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.
  • hand-stitched — stitched by hand rather than by a machine
  • hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
  • 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.
  • ideal crystal — a crystal in which there are no defects or impurities
  • identicalness — The state or quality of being identical.
  • idiomaticness — Idiomaticity.
  • incandescents — Plural form of incandescent.
  • inconsiderate — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
  • indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
  • indoctrinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indoctrinate.
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
  • list enhanced — (operating system, tool)   An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
  • long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
  • magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • maiden castle — an ancient fortification in Dorsetshire, England, first erected c250 b.c. over the remains of Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements of c2000–c1500 b.c.
  • mastoidectomy — the removal of part of a mastoid process, usually for draining an infection.
  • mean distance — the arithmetic mean of the greatest and least distances of a planet from the sun, used in stating the size of an orbit; the semimajor axis.
  • meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
  • medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
  • melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
  • methodistical — Methodistic.
  • misadvertence — inadvertence
  • miscalculated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalculate.
  • miscalibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalibrate.
  • miscoordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • mixed crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
  • nits-and-lice — a yellow-flowered plant, Hypericum drummondii, of the central U.S.
  • nonadolescent — Not adolescent.
  • nonassociated — (of natural gas) not associated with a deposit of crude oil
  • occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
  • peace studies — a field of political science which examines how to reduce conflicts
  • peak district — a region of N central England, mainly in N Derbyshire at the S end of the Pennines: consists of moors in the north and a central limestone plateau; many caves. Highest point: 727 m (2088 ft)
  • pedal cyclist — a person who rides a pedal cycle, as opposed to a motorcycle
  • periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
  • perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
  • post-actinide — transactinide
  • postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
  • pseudoaquatic — not aquatic but indigenous to moist regions.
  • radiopacities — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
  • radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
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