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13-letter words containing d, e, c, i, n, g

  • give evidence — testify in a court of law
  • glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • gnathic index — Craniometry. the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed in percent of the latter.
  • good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
  • grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
  • greeting card — card1 (def 4).
  • 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.
  • homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
  • indian agency — headquarters of an Indian agent.
  • indo-germanic — Indo-European
  • landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • leading block — lead block.
  • long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
  • machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
  • magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • magnetic head — head (def 33).
  • magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
  • merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
  • method acting — film, theater: acting approach
  • micr encoding — The MICR encoding of a check is the magnetic ink pattern at the bottom that can be scanned and that contains information about the check.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • misrecognized — Simple past tense and past participle of misrecognize.
  • monoglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of one hydroxyl group with a fatty acid.
  • much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.
  • nonadrenergic — Not adrenergic.
  • noncondensing — Not condensing; of a steam engine, discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser.
  • nondecreasing — not decreasing.
  • nonindulgence — Lack of indulgence.
  • noradrenergic — Having the quality of noradrenaline.
  • 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
  • pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
  • peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
  • perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
  • preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
  • racing driver — someone who drives a racing car in motor car races
  • reading chair — a chair of the 18th century having an adjustable reading stand attached to the back and a crest rail extending forward on both sides to form armrests, designed to be sat on facing the back.
  • receding chin — if somebody has a receding chin, it does not stick out and appears to slope backwards, giving the appearance of a weak jawline
  • receiving end — the position in which one is subject to some kind of action or effect, especially an unpleasant one (usually used in the phrase at or on the receiving end): The corporation is on the receiving end of many complaints about its advertising.
  • recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
  • recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • redistricting — to divide anew into districts, as for administrative or electoral purposes.
  • riding jacket — coat worn for horse-riding
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
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