13-letter words containing d, e, c, i, u
- computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
- conduciveness — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
- conductimetry — the science of measuring the conductivity of solutions.
- confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
- conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
- consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
- consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
- continuedness — the state of being continued
- coolidge tube — a cathode ray tube, used for x-ray production, in which a beam of thermoelectrons is produced by heating a wire cathode.
- cough and die — (jargon) barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
- coulomb field — the electrostatic field around an electrically charged body or particle
- counterbidder — a person or organization that makes a bid in opposition to another bid
- counterfeited — Simple past tense and past participle of counterfeit.
- counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
- countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
- credit bureau — an agency that is a clearinghouse for information on the credit rating of individuals or firms
- credit crunch — A credit crunch is a period during which there is a sudden reduction in the amount of money that banks and other lenders have available to lend.
- culdocentesis — (medicine) A diagnostic procedure in which fluid from the rectouterine pouch is extracted, via the vagina, using a needle.
- culture fluid — the fluid used as a medium for growing microorganisms
- current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
- custody suite — the part of a police station where people who have been arrested are held in custody
- cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
- cut-and-dried — prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
- cutter-rigged — fore-and-aft-rigged on one mast in the manner of a cutter.
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- dairy produce — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
- data security — the protection of data stored on computers
- debit account — a bank account which allows you to buy goods or services with money that you have put into the account
- decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
- decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
- deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
- deciduousness — The state or condition of being deciduous; the quality of trees which lose their leaves in winter or the dry season.
- decommunizing — Present participle of decommunize.
- decompounding — Present participle of decompound.
- deconvolution — A process of resolving something into its constituent elements or removing complication in order to clarify it.
- deculturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- deducibleness — The quality of being deducible.
- deductibility — capable of being deducted.
- deduplication — (computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
- deep discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
- deep-discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
- deliciousness — highly pleasing to the senses, especially to taste or smell: a delicious dinner; a delicious aroma.
- delinquencies — Plural form of delinquency.
- deliquescence — the process of deliquescing
- demasculinise — Alternative spelling of demasculinize.
- demasculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).