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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.
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