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13-letter words containing d, e, t, a, c, h

  • diethylacetal — acetal (def 1).
  • diotheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
  • disenchanting — Present participle of disenchant.
  • dispatch case — attaché case.
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • dreamcatchers — Plural form of dreamcatcher.
  • dual-attached — The form of FDDI interface where a device is connected to both FDDI token-passing rings, so that uninterrupted operation continues in the event of a failure of either of the rings. All connections to the main FDDI rings are dual-attached. Typically, a small number of critical infrastructure devices such as routers and concentrators are dual-attached, whereas host computers are normally single-attached or dual-homed to a router or concentrator. For example, a ring could be formed between a single router and two concentrators (all dual-attached) then all other components that need to be fault-tolerant (typically file servers) can be dual-homed to both concentrators.
  • dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
  • dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
  • dyothelitical — relating to dyotheletism
  • enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
  • endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
  • epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
  • ethanoic acid — acetic acid
  • fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
  • fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • gaidhealtachd — the area of Scotland in which Scottish Gaelic is the vernacular speech
  • gnathic index — Craniometry. the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed in percent of the latter.
  • half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
  • hand-stitched — stitched by hand rather than by a machine
  • hatchet-faced — having a face with narrow dimensions and sharp features
  • hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
  • heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
  • heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
  • hexactinellid — a type of sponge characterized by their (usually) six siliceous spicules or rays
  • hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
  • hexadactylous — hexadactylic
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
  • hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
  • hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
  • hyperdactylia — the presence of extra fingers or toes.
  • interchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
  • list enhanced — (operating system, tool)   An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
  • load the dice — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
  • magnetic head — head (def 33).
  • matched order — an order placed with a broker to buy a specified stock at a price above the market price with the intention of immediately selling the stock through another broker at the same price. It is designed to give the appearance of active trading in the stock.
  • method acting — film, theater: acting approach
  • methodistical — Methodistic.
  • monochromated — Fitted with a monochromator.
  • much-traveled — A much-traveled person has traveled a lot in foreign countries.
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • nondetachable — Not capable of being detached.
  • orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
  • protochordate — any of the nonvertebrate chordates, as the tunicates, cephalochordates, and hemichordates.
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