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13-letter words containing d, e, n, u, c, l

  • denuclearized — Simple past tense and past participle of denuclearize.
  • destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
  • difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
  • discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
  • discounselled — lacking support or counsel
  • disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
  • documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
  • documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • double bounce — (of the ball in tennis, table tennis, etc) two bounces on the same side of the net before a return
  • double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
  • double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • dual alliance — the alliance between France and Russia (1890), strengthened by a military convention (1892–93) and lasting until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
  • due diligence — the degree of care that is to be reasonably expected or that is legally required, esp. of persons giving professional advice
  • due-diligence — reasonable care and caution exercised by a person who is buying, selling, giving professional advice, etc., especially as required by law to protect against incurring liability: The court said there was due diligence on the part of the plaintiff.
  • educationally — pertaining to education.
  • endonucleases — Plural form of endonuclease.
  • eudicotyledon — any plant belonging to one of the two major groups of flowering plants, comprising over 60 per cent of all plants, normally having net-veined leaves and two cotyledons in the seed
  • fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • 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.
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
  • 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.
  • inconcludable — Impossible to conclude; unfinishable.
  • incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indiscussible — unsuitable for or not subject or open to discussion; not negotiable.
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • ineducability — Inability to be educated.
  • judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
  • juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
  • knuckle under — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
  • knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
  • knuckleheaded — Stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.
  • language code — (human language, standard)   A set of standard names and abbreviations maintained by ISO for identifying human languages, natural and invented, past and present. Each language has a list of English and French names and an ISO 639-2 three-letter code. Some also have an ISO 639-1 two-letter code. The list even includes the Klingon language from the Star Trek science fiction series. There are also country codes.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • malleoincudal — Of or relating to both the malleus and the incus.
  • many-coloured — having many colours
  • miscounselled — having bad or incorrect counselling
  • mock pendulum — a false pendulum bob attached to the balances of certain timepieces and visible through a slot in the dial or case.
  • mononucleated — having a single nucleus
  • much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • multicylinder — having more than one cylinder, as an internal-combustion or steam engine.
  • municipalized — Simple past tense and past participle of municipalize.
  • non-credulous — marked by or arising from credulity: a credulous rumor.
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