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13-letter words containing d, e, l, i, r, u

  • dolly mixture — a mixture of small coloured sweets
  • double boiler — a utensil consisting of two pots, one of which fits partway into the other: water is boiled in the lower pot to cook or warm food or melt a substance in the upper.
  • double bridle — a bridle with four reins coming from a bit with two rings on each side
  • double-dipper — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
  • double-figure — double-digit.
  • double-ripper — bobsled (def 2).
  • driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
  • dumb terminal — (hardware)   A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • extrajudicial — (of a sentence) not legally authorized.
  • extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
  • fiddle around — waste time doing sth trivial
  • figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
  • 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.
  • fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
  • 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.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • gliding lemur — flying lemur.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • 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.
  • harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
  • high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
  • 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.
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
  • ideal mixture — An ideal mixture is a mixture in which the concentration of any part taken from it is the same as the average for the whole.
  • ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
  • inarticulated — Not articulated; not connected by a joint.
  • incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • industrialise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of industrialize.
  • industrialize — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
  • interruptedly — In an interrupted manner.
  • lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
  • lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
  • lucid dreamer — a person who has lucid dreams, either naturally or as a result of training
  • ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
  • mercurialized — Simple past tense and past participle of mercurialize.
  • middle course — an option or alternative between more extreme alternatives
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