13-letter words containing d, i, s, u, e
- excise duties — the tax payable on certain goods, such as alcohol, cigarettes, fuel
- exhaustipated — Too tired to care about anything.
- expeditiously — In an expeditious manner.
- exsanguinated — Simple past tense and past participle of exsanguinate.
- ferrous oxide — a black powder, FeO, insoluble in water, soluble in acid.
- fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
- figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
- filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
- fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour) A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
- 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.
- food supplies — food obtained for a household or for a country, an expedition, etc
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
- freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
- good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- 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.
- gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
- harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
- house-trained — housebroken.
- housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- 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.
- hydromedusoid — a jellyfish or something resembling a jellyfish that lives in water
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- ill-disguised — badly concealed or hidden.
- ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
- in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- 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.
- inbounds line — one of two broken lines, parallel to the sidelines and running the length of the field, to which the ball is brought when it goes beyond the sidelines.
- 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
- 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.
- indiscussible — unsuitable for or not subject or open to discussion; not negotiable.
- indissuadable — incapable of being dissuaded
- indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
- individualise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of individualize.
- 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.
- inodorousness — the quality of being inodorous
- inquisitioned — Simple past tense and past participle of inquisition.
- insidiousness — intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
- insolubilized — Made insoluble.
- insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.