13-letter words containing d, e, m, c
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- domino effect — the cumulative effect that results when one event precipitates a series of like events.
- dreamcatchers — Plural form of dreamcatcher.
- dynamic range — the range of signal amplitudes over which an electronic communications channel can operate within acceptable limits of distortion. The range is determined by system noise at the lower end and by the onset of overload at the upper end
- dynamic scope — (language) In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
- dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
- earned income — income from wages, salaries, fees, or the like, accruing from labor or services performed by the earner.
- economic good — a commodity or service that can be utilized to satisfy human wants and that has exchange value.
- economy drive — a campaign by the government or a firm to reduce expenditure and make savings
- edam (cheese) — a mild, yellow cheese, made in a round mold and usually having a coating of red paraffin
- electrodermal — Of or relating to measurement of the electrical conductivity of the skin, especially as an indicator of someone’s emotional responses.
- electroformed — Produced, or modified by electroforming.
- enantiodromic — relating to enantiodromia
- enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
- encyclopedism — Comprehensive learning or knowledge.
- endocommensal — a commensal living within the body of the host organism
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
- endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
- epidemiologic — Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
- ethnomedicine — (medicine) traditional folk-medicine.
- eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
- excess demand — a situation in which the market demand for a commodity is greater than its market supply, thus causing its market price to rise
- 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
- 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.
- female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
- 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.
- film recorder — a photographic device for producing a sound strip on a motion-picture film.
- folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
- france modern — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
- 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.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- geodesic dome — a light, domelike structure developed by R. Buckminster Fuller to combine the properties of the tetrahedron and the sphere and consisting essentially of a grid of compression or tension members lying upon or parallel to great circles running in three directions in any given area, the typical form being the projection upon a sphere of an icosahedron, the triangular faces of which are filled with a symmetrical triangular, hexagonal, or quadrangular grid.
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- helicoid cyme — an inflorescence, or cyme, in which each flowering branch gives rise to one lateral branch that is coiled snail-like and then expanded.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- here document — (operating system) Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
- heterodimeric — (chemistry) produced from two similar but different monomers.
- hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
- homestead act — a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
- homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
- homoscedastic — having the same variance.
- humped cattle — any of several breeds of domestic cattle developed from the Indian species Bos indicus and characterized by a hump of fat and muscle over the shoulders.
- hypolipidemic — That reduces the concentration of lipid in blood serum.