13-letter words containing d, e, c, i, o
- fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
- fictionalized — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
- field officer — an officer holding a field grade.
- film recorder — a photographic device for producing a sound strip on a motion-picture film.
- firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
- folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
- 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.
- french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- friction feed — (printer) A method some printers and plotters use to move paper by rotating one or both of a pair of spring-loaded rubber-coated rollers with the paper sandwiched between them. Friction feed printers are notorious for slipping when the rollers wear out, but can take standard typing paper. For printers with a sheet feeder, friction feed is more appropriate than sprocket feed which requires the holes in the paper to engage with the sprockets of the feed mechanism.
- friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
- galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
- 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.
- geohydrologic — relating to geohydrology
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- glycopeptides — Plural form of glycopeptide.
- gold chloride — a yellow to red, water-soluble compound, AuCl 3 , used chiefly in photography, gilding ceramic ware and glass, and in the manufacture of purple of Cassius.
- good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
- gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
- 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
- helicoid cyme — an inflorescence, or cyme, in which each flowering branch gives rise to one lateral branch that is coiled snail-like and then expanded.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
- 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.
- heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
- heterodimeric — (chemistry) produced from two similar but different monomers.
- hexanoic acid — caproic acid.
- high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
- homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
- homoscedastic — having the same variance.
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
- hydrochloride — a salt, especially of an alkaloid, formed by the direct union of hydrochloric acid with an organic base that makes the organic constituent more soluble.
- hydroelectric — pertaining to the generation and distribution of electricity derived from the energy of falling water or any other hydraulic source.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
- hyperdicrotic — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
- hypoeutectoid — (of steel) having less carbon than the 0.8 percent of eutectoid steel.
- hypolipidemic — That reduces the concentration of lipid in blood serum.
- iceland poppy — any of various widely cultivated arctic poppies, esp Papaver nudicaule, with white or yellow nodding flowers
- ideogrammatic — Of or pertaining to ideograms.
- ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
- ideologically — of or relating to ideology.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- idiomaticness — Idiomaticity.
- ill-concealed — poorly disguised
- ill-conceived — badly conceived or planned: an ill-conceived project.