13-letter words containing d, e, c, r, a
- enantiodromic — relating to enantiodromia
- enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
- epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
- eta reduction — eta conversion
- exercise yard — a piece of enclosed ground in a prison on which inmates can exercise in order to get fit and to remain healthy
- exotic dancer — a striptease dancer or belly dancer
- expert advice — advice given by someone who has studied a subject thoroughly or who is very skilled at a particular job
- extended care — nursing care provided for a limited time after a hospital stay, as in a special facility
- extrajudicial — (of a sentence) not legally authorized.
- face-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points on the faces of the unit cells.
- family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
- federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
- fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- 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.
- fitted carpet — wall-to-wall carpeting
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
- france modern — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
- freckle-faced — having a face conspicuously covered with freckles.
- freedom march — an organized march protesting a government's restriction of or lack of support for civil rights, especially such a march in support of racial integration in the U.S. in the 1960s.
- french canada — the areas of Canada, esp in the province of Quebec, where French Canadians predominate
- 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.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- garden center — a store that sells gardening supplies, as seeds, plants, fertilizer, and tools.
- garden centre — A garden centre is a large shop, usually with an outdoor area, where you can buy things for your garden such as plants and gardening tools.
- garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
- get-well card — a greeting card sent to a person who is unwell, expressing a wish for a speedy recovery
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- glyceric acid — a colorless, syrupy liquid, C 3 H 6 O 4 , obtained by oxidizing glycerol.
- good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- grade cricket — competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades
- grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- grand larceny — larceny in which the value of the goods taken is above a certain legally specified amount.
- grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
- gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
- greeting card — card1 (def 4).
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- h and d curve — characteristic curve.
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- hard currency — money that is backed by gold reserves and is readily convertible into foreign currencies.
- have a record — to be a known criminal; have a previous conviction or convictions
- hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.