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13-letter words containing d, e, u, c, t

  • 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
  • eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
  • educationally — pertaining to education.
  • educationists — Plural form of educationist.
  • eta reduction — eta conversion
  • eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
  • 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
  • excise duties — the tax payable on certain goods, such as alcohol, cigarettes, fuel
  • excludability — The ability to be excluded.
  • extrajudicial — (of a sentence) not legally authorized.
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
  • ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
  • here document — (operating system)   Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
  • hexadactylous — hexadactylic
  • 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.
  • hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
  • hypoeutectoid — (of steel) having less carbon than the 0.8 percent of eutectoid steel.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
  • ineducability — Inability to be educated.
  • 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.
  • introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
  • 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.
  • knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • leucodepleted — of or denoting blood from which the white cells have been removed
  • lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
  • loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
  • magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
  • medical audit — a review of the professional standards of doctors, usually within a hospital, conducted by a medical committee
  • medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
  • medium octavo — a size of book, about 6 × 9½ inches (15 × 24 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 8vo.
  • miscalculated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalculate.
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