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

  • endocrinology — The branch of physiology and medicine concerned with endocrine glands and hormones.
  • endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
  • endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
  • endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
  • endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
  • epicondylitis — A painful inflammation of tendons surrounding an epicondyle.
  • eta reduction — eta conversion
  • ethanoic acid — acetic acid
  • ethnomedicine — (medicine) traditional folk-medicine.
  • eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
  • eudicotyledon — any plant belonging to one of the two major groups of flowering plants, comprising over 60 per cent of all plants, normally having net-veined leaves and two cotyledons in the seed
  • exotic dancer — a striptease dancer or belly dancer
  • factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
  • fence-mending — the practice of reestablishing or strengthening personal, business, or political contacts and relationships by conciliation or negotiation, as after a dispute, disagreement, or period of inactivity.
  • fickle-minded — (of a person) prone to casual change; inconstant.
  • fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
  • fictionalized — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • field captain — a member of a team taking active part in a game who is authorized to make decisions for the team, especially in regard to planning plays, deciding whether to accept penalties called by an official against the opponents, etc.
  • field kitchen — the place at which the food for a unit of soldiers in the field is prepared
  • fin de siecle — the end of the 19th century.
  • finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
  • folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
  • french endive — endive (def 2).
  • french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • friction feed — (printer)   A method some printers and plotters use to move paper by rotating one or both of a pair of spring-loaded rubber-coated rollers with the paper sandwiched between them. Friction feed printers are notorious for slipping when the rollers wear out, but can take standard typing paper. For printers with a sheet feeder, friction feed is more appropriate than sprocket feed which requires the holes in the paper to engage with the sprockets of the feed mechanism.
  • 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.
  • fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
  • genetic drift — random changes in the frequency of alleles in a gene pool, usually of small populations.
  • gentisic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble compound, C 7 H 6 O 4 , used chiefly in the form of its sodium salt as an analgesic and diaphoretic.
  • geodesic line — the shortest line lying on a given surface and connecting two given points.
  • give evidence — testify in a court of law
  • glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • gnathic index — Craniometry. the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed in percent of the latter.
  • good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
  • grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
  • greeting card — card1 (def 4).
  • ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
  • gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
  • haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
  • hand-stitched — stitched by hand rather than by a machine
  • handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
  • herd instinct — the impulse or tendency toward clustering or acting in a group, especially the presumed instinct toward or need for gregariousness and conformity.
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
  • hexactinellid — a type of sponge characterized by their (usually) six siliceous spicules or rays
  • hexanoic acid — caproic acid.
  • homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
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