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13-letter words containing d, n, r

  • edward jennerEdward, 1749–1823, English physician: discoverer of smallpox vaccine.
  • edward lorenz — (person)   A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.
  • edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
  • electioneered — Simple past tense and past participle of electioneer.
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • enantiodromia — (psychiatry, according to Carl Jung) The principle whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium.
  • enantiodromic — relating to enantiodromia
  • enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
  • endearingness — The quality of being endearing.
  • endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
  • endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
  • endocrinology — The branch of physiology and medicine concerned with endocrine glands and hormones.
  • endometriosis — A condition resulting from the appearance of endometrial tissue outside the uterus and causing pelvic pain.
  • endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
  • endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
  • endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
  • endurableness — (rare) The state of being endurable; endurability.
  • enfield rifle — a breech-loading bolt-action magazine rifle, usually .303 calibre, used by the British army until World War II and by other countries
  • engine driver — sb who drives a train
  • enrolled bill — draft legislation approved in identical form by both houses and sent to the President for approval
  • equidifferent — equilateral; having differences that are equal
  • equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
  • equiponderate — To counterbalance.
  • estrangedness — the state of being estranged
  • 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
  • even-tempered — mild mannered
  • evening dress — formal clothing
  • ever and anon — now and then
  • evidentiarily — In an evidentiary way.
  • exotic dancer — a striptease dancer or belly dancer
  • expeditionary — Of or forming an expedition, especially a military expedition.
  • extended care — nursing care provided for a limited time after a hospital stay, as in a special facility
  • extraordinary — Very unusual or remarkable.
  • face-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points on the faces of the unit cells.
  • faint-hearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
  • family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
  • fanfold paper — continuous paper perforated at regular intervals, as used in a dot-matrix printer
  • faroe islands — islands in Atlantic Ocean
  • farther india — a peninsula in SE Asia, between India and China: consists of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaysia
  • felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
  • fender bender — a collision between motor vehicles in which there is only minor damage.
  • fender-bender — a collision between motor vehicles in which there is only minor damage.
  • ferdinand iii — Ferdinand II (def 1).
  • ferdinand vii — 1784–1833, king of Spain 1808, 1814–33.
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • fiddle around — waste time doing sth trivial
  • fighting word — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • figure-ground — a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background.
  • film industry — all the companies, studios, people etc involved in making commercial films collectively
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