12-letter words containing d, i, t, c
- eradications — Plural form of eradication.
- eric the red — ?940–?1010 ad, Norse navigator: discovered and colonized Greenland; father of Leif Ericson
- ethical code — an ethical code is a set of moral principles used to govern the conduct of a profession
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- ex-directory — phone number: not listed publicly
- extracardiac — (anatomy) Outside the heart.
- fact-finding — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
- fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
- federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
- fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
- fiddlesticks — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
- fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- field centre — a research centre equipped for field studies, usually located in or near an area of scientific interest
- field cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
- field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
- field-effect — designating or of an electronic component or device, esp. a transistor, controlled by an external electric field
- fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
- fluidextract — 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 fascist — a person who shows extreme, intolerant views in relation to food
- fort detrick — a military reservation in N Maryland, NW of Frederick.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
- friend-court — amicus curiae.
- gaillard cut — an artificial cutting in the Panama Canal Zone, NW of the city of Panama: excavated for the Panama Canal. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- galactosides — Plural form of galactoside.
- gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
- genetic code — the biochemical instructions that translate the genetic information present as a linear sequence of nucleotide triplets in messenger RNA into the correct linear sequence of amino acids for the synthesis of a particular peptide chain or protein. Compare codon, translation (def 9).
- genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
- geodetically — pertaining to geodesy.
- gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- glycopeptide — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
- gonadotropic — pertaining to substances formed in the anterior pituitary gland that affect the activity of the ovary or testis.
- gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
- gray catbird — any of several American or Australian birds having catlike cries, especially Dumetella carolinensis (gray catbird) of North America.
- grid circuit — that part of a circuit that contains the cathode and the grid of a vacuum tube.
- grid current — the current that moves within the vacuum tube from the grid to the cathode.
- guide center — a command to a marching formation to align itself behind a guide marching at the head of the formation.
- hallucinated — Simple past tense and past participle of hallucinate.
- handcrafting — Present participle of handcraft.
- handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
- handstitched — Stitched by hand.
- helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hexadactylic — having six fingers or toes
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- high-pitched — Music. played or sung at a high pitch.
- historicized — Simple past tense and past participle of historicize.
- hit the deck — Nautical. a floorlike surface wholly or partially occupying one level of a hull, superstructure, or deckhouse, generally cambered, and often serving as a member for strengthening the structure of a vessel. the space between such a surface and the next such surface above: Our stateroom was on B deck.