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

  • speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • speedcoding 3 — (language)   [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959].
  • spice islands — the Moluccas
  • spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
  • stand accused — If someone stands accused of something, they have been accused of it.
  • standard cell — a primary electric cell, as the Weston cell, that produces an accurately known constant voltage: used in scientific measurements.
  • stannic oxide — a white, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, SnO 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramic glazes and glass, and of polishing powders for metal, glass, and marble.
  • steroidogenic — of or pertaining to steroidogenesis
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
  • subdiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
  • subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
  • subject index — alphabetical contents list
  • supercalender — a roll or set of rolls for giving a high, smooth finish to paper.
  • suspectedness — the state of being suspected
  • sweet-scented — having a pleasant and sweet smell; fragrant.
  • syndesmectomy — excision of part of a ligament.
  • synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • table dancing — Table dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances in a sexy way close to a customer or group of customers.
  • tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
  • tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
  • tax deduction — an expenditure that is deducted from taxable income.
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • technologized — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • teledildonics — a technology supposedly enabling two or more people to engage in sexual activity remotely
  • telerecording — the recording of television signals on tape or, more usually, on film
  • tendency tone — a tone that is harmonically or melodically unstable and tends naturally to resolve itself either upward or downward.
  • the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
  • the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
  • the decencies — those things that are considered necessary for a decent life
  • the ediacaran — the Ediacaran period or rock system
  • the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
  • the unco guid — narrow-minded, excessively religious, or self-righteous people
  • the-decameron — a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio.
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
  • thick-skinned — having a thick skin.
  • thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
  • thunderstruck — overcome with consternation; confounded; astounded: He was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion.
  • time discount — a discount allowed for payment of an invoice or bill before it falls due.
  • timing device — a device that can be set to detonate a bomb at a particular time
  • titanic oxide — a white, water-insoluble powder, TiO 2 , used chiefly in white pigments, plastics, ceramics, and for delustering synthetic fibers.
  • trade balance — balance of trade.
  • trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
  • transactinide — any element having an atomic number higher than 103, the last of the actinide series. These superheavy, radioactive elements are extremely short-lived, and can only be created in the laboratory.
  • transcendence — the quality or state of being transcendent.
  • transcendency — the quality or state of being transcendent.
  • transcendents — going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
  • trinucleotide — three linked nucleotides; triplet.
  • twenty-second — next after the twenty-first; being the ordinal number for 22.
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