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

  • golfe du lion — French name of the Gulf of Lions.
  • good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry
  • gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • 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.
  • haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
  • hanging judge — sb who sentences criminals to execution
  • harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
  • herd immunity — the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.
  • house-trained — housebroken.
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
  • hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
  • hunting lodge — a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday when they want to go hunting
  • hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
  • i'll be bound — I am sure (something) is true
  • ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
  • in default of — If something happens in default of something else, it happens because that other thing does not happen or proves to be impossible.
  • in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
  • in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
  • inarticulated — Not articulated; not connected by a joint.
  • inbounds line — one of two broken lines, parallel to the sidelines and running the length of the field, to which the ball is brought when it goes beyond the sidelines.
  • inconcludable — Impossible to conclude; unfinishable.
  • incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
  • index futures — a form of financial futures based on projected movement of a share price index, such as the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Share Index
  • india drugget — drugget (def 1).
  • indian runner — one of a breed of domestic ducks.
  • indian summer — a period of mild, dry weather, usually accompanied by a hazy atmosphere, occurring usually in late October or early November and following a period of colder weather.
  • 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.
  • indiscussible — unsuitable for or not subject or open to discussion; not negotiable.
  • indissuadable — incapable of being dissuaded
  • indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
  • individualise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of individualize.
  • individualize — to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.
  • indo-european — a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. Compare family (def 14).
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • indolequinone — (chemistry) Any of a class of molecules based upon an indole but with two additional ketone groups (quinone) attached to the ring structure.
  • inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
  • industrialise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of industrialize.
  • industrialize — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
  • industry-wide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
  • ineducability — Inability to be educated.
  • infundibulate — Shaped like a funnel; infundibulated or infundibular.
  • injured party — victim
  • 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.
  • inodorousness — the quality of being inodorous
  • inquisitioned — Simple past tense and past participle of inquisition.
  • insidiousness — intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
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