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.