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

  • headquartered — to situate in headquarters.
  • 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.
  • here document — (operating system)   Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
  • high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
  • hold a grudge — be resentful
  • holyroodhouse — a royal palace in Edinburgh in Scotland: official residence of the Queen when in Scotland; begun in 1501 by James IV of Scotland; scene of the murder of David Rizzio in 1566
  • honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
  • horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
  • hors d'oeuvre — a small bit of appetizing food, as spicy meat, fish, cheese, or a preparation of chopped or creamed foods, often served on crackers or small pieces of toast, for eating at cocktail parties or other gatherings where drinks are served with no other food.
  • hors doeuvres — Hors d'oeuvres are small amounts of food served before the main course of a meal.
  • house-trained — housebroken.
  • housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
  • household art — any of the skills necessary to the efficient running of a household, as cooking or keeping a family budget.
  • hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
  • 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.
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
  • hydromedusoid — a jellyfish or something resembling a jellyfish that lives in water
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
  • hyperproducer — an increased or rapid producer
  • 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
  • in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
  • inarticulated — Not articulated; not connected by a joint.
  • incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
  • index futures — a form of financial futures based on projected movement of a share price index, such as the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Share Index
  • india drugget — drugget (def 1).
  • indian runner — one of a breed of domestic ducks.
  • indian summer — a period of mild, dry weather, usually accompanied by a hazy atmosphere, occurring usually in late October or early November and following a period of colder weather.
  • 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.
  • indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
  • 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).
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
  • industrialise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of industrialize.
  • industrialize — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
  • industry-wide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
  • injured party — victim
  • 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.
  • inodorousness — the quality of being inodorous
  • insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • inter-assured — to make (a future event) sure; ensure: This contract assures the company's profit this month.
  • interindustry — occurring or existing between two or more industries
  • interruptedly — In an interrupted manner.
  • introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
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