13-letter words containing d, e, c, n, t
- incident room — An incident room is a room used by the police while they are dealing with a major crime or accident.
- incidentaloma — an abnormal lesion or tumor detected by chance during a medical imaging test, physical examination, or surgery.
- incommodities — Plural form of incommodity.
- inconsiderate — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
- incredibility — so extraordinary as to seem impossible: incredible speed.
- indeterminacy — the condition or quality of being indeterminate; indetermination.
- indirect cost — a business cost that is not directly accountable to a particular function or product; a fixed cost, as a land tax or the like.
- indirect jump — (programming) A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
- indiscretions — Plural form of indiscretion.
- indistinctive — without distinctive characteristics.
- indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
- indoctrinated — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
- indoctrinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indoctrinate.
- indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- ineducability — Inability to be educated.
- inner product — Also called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
- insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
- interchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- intercondylar — Anatomy. the smooth surface area at the end of a bone, forming part of a joint.
- interdistrict — a division of territory, as of a country, state, or county, marked off for administrative, electoral, or other purposes.
- interepidemic — Also, epidemical. (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.
- interpandemic — occurring between two pandemics
- intoxicatedly — In an intoxicated fashion; drunkenly.
- introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
- jet condenser — a steam condenser in which a jet of water is sprayed into the condenser chamber.
- john endicott — John, Endecott, John.
- judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
- kitchen-diner — a kitchen that has an area intended to be used for eating meals, usually because there is no dining room elsewhere
- knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
- l-d converter — a vessel in which steel is made from pig iron by blowing oxygen into the molten metal through a water-cooled tube
- lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
- latent defect — hidden fault, undiscovered flaw
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- 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.
- london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- 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.
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- method acting — film, theater: acting approach
- mid wicket on — mid on.
- mine detector — an electromagnetic device for locating buried or concealed land mines.
- misadvertence — inadvertence