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

  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • free-spending — spending or tending to spend freely: If you don't mend your free-spending ways, you'll go bankrupt.
  • freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
  • gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
  • grand opening — celebratory first-day event
  • grand prairie — a city in NE Texas.
  • hemiterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C5 skeleton.
  • heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
  • heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
  • herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
  • high-spending — spending more than is necessary or appropriate
  • hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
  • hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • iceland poppy — any of various widely cultivated arctic poppies, esp Papaver nudicaule, with white or yellow nodding flowers
  • imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
  • improvidently — In an improvident manner.
  • in deep water — the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
  • in despite of — in spite of
  • in good shape — person: fit, healthy
  • incapacitated — unable to act, respond, or the like (often used euphemistically when one is busy or otherwise occupied): He can't come to the phone now—he's incapacitated.
  • indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
  • independantly — Misspelling of independently.
  • independently — not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself: an independent thinker.
  • indian empire — British India and the Indian states ruled by native princes but under indirect British control: dissolved in 1947 and absorbed into India and Pakistan.
  • 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.
  • indiscerpible — (obsolete) Not discerpible; inseparable.
  • indisciplined — Alternative form of undisciplined.
  • indispensable — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
  • indispensably — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
  • indispensible — Misspelling of indispensable.
  • 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).
  • inexpediently — In a way that is not expedient.
  • inexperienced — not experienced; lacking knowledge, skill, or wisdom gained from experience.
  • injured party — victim
  • inland empire — a region in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, E of the Cascade Mountains, in E Washington, NE Oregon, N Idaho, and NW Montana.
  • 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.
  • insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
  • interdepended — Simple past tense and past participle of interdepend.
  • interepidemic — Also, epidemical. (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.
  • interpandemic — occurring between two pandemics
  • interpellated — Simple past tense and past participle of interpellate.
  • interpleaders — Plural form of interpleader.
  • interpleading — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
  • interpretated — Misspelling of interpreted.
  • interruptedly — In an interrupted manner.
  • isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
  • judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
  • junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
  • jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
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