0%

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

  • equiponderate — To counterbalance.
  • eta reduction — eta conversion
  • european toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans, the male of which carries the fertilized eggs on its hind legs until they hatch: family Discoglossidae
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • 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.
  • forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
  • fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
  • foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • get around to — When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.
  • go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • gros de tours — a ribbed silk fabric made with a two- or three-ply warp interlaced with organzine and tram filling.
  • ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
  • ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
  • ground return — Ground return is the return path for an electrical circuit made by connections to ground at each end.
  • ground stroke — a stroke made by hitting the ball after it has bounced from the ground. Compare volley (def 4b).
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • groundstrokes — Plural form of groundstroke.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • here document — (operating system)   Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
  • 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.
  • hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
  • 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.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
  • 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.
  • insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
  • lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • 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
  • loss adjuster — A loss adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money should be paid to a person making a claim.
  • meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
  • medium quarto — a size of book, about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 4to.
  • misunderstood — improperly understood or interpreted.
  • monosaturated — (organic chemistry, of a glyceride) Having one saturated fatty acid.
  • mordant rouge — a solution of aluminum acetate in acetic acid, used in dyeing and calico printing.
  • mottled umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Erannis defoliaria, whose looper larvae can strip branches and even trees
  • multicoloured — Alternative spelling of multicolored.
  • neuroectoderm — (anatomy) The region of the ectoderm of an embryo that develops into the central nervous system and other nervous tissue.
  • neuropeptides — Plural form of neuropeptide.
  • niche product — sth of specific or limited consumer interest
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?