13-letter words containing d, e, m, i, r
- endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
- epidermolysis — Loosening of the epidermis, with extensive blistering of the skin and mucous membranes, occurring either after injury, or as a spontaneous and potentially dangerous condition, particularly in children.
- 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
- family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
- ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
- field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
- film recorder — a photographic device for producing a sound strip on a motion-picture film.
- fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
- forementioned — Mentioned earlier or above; already cited.
- frame of mind — mental state
- freedom rider — (especially in the 1960s) a bus trip made to parts of the southern U.S. by persons engaging in efforts to integrate racially segregated public facilities.
- fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- gliding lemur — flying lemur.
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
- grand marnier — a French cognac-based liqueur with an orange flavour
- grimes golden — a yellow variety of apple that ripens in late autumn.
- haemodialyzer — a piece of equipment used in haemodialysis to screen the blood to remove unwanted substances
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- headmistressy — typical of the duties and behaviour of a headmistress
- hedge trimmer — garden tool for cutting hedges
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hemiterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C5 skeleton.
- 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.
- hereditaments — Plural form of hereditament.
- hermaphrodism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- hermaphrodite — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
- heterodimeric — (chemistry) produced from two similar but different monomers.
- holiday-maker — vacationer.
- holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
- home delivery — delivery to one's home
- hybrid system — a way of working, organizing, or doing something that is composed of elements of two separate systems
- hydrated lime — a soft, white, crystalline, very slightly water-soluble powder, Ca(OH) 2 , obtained by the action of water on lime: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements.
- hydromedusoid — a jellyfish or something resembling a jellyfish that lives in water
- hydroxylamine — an unstable, weakly basic, crystalline compound, NH 3 O, used as a reducing agent, analytical reagent, and chemical intermediate.
- 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.
- ideogrammatic — Of or pertaining to ideograms.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- impredicative — (of a definition) given in terms that require quantification over a range that includes that which is to be defined, as having all the properties of a great general where one of the properties as ascribed must be that property itself
- impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
- improvidently — In an improvident manner.
- in medias res — in the middle of things.
- in moderation — not to excess
- incident room — An incident room is a room used by the police while they are dealing with a major crime or accident.
- indeterminacy — the condition or quality of being indeterminate; indetermination.
- indeterminant — Not accurately determined or determinable.
- indeterminate — not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain.
- indeterminism — the doctrine that human actions, though influenced somewhat by preexisting psychological and other conditions, are not entirely governed by them but retain a certain freedom and spontaneity.