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13-letter words containing d, o, r, e, c

  • hydroelectric — pertaining to the generation and distribution of electricity derived from the energy of falling water or any other hydraulic source.
  • hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
  • hyperdicrotic — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
  • hyperproducer — an increased or rapid producer
  • ideogrammatic — Of or pertaining to ideograms.
  • ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
  • ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
  • in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
  • incident room — An incident room is a room used by the police while they are dealing with a major crime or accident.
  • inconsiderate — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
  • incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indirect cost — a business cost that is not directly accountable to a particular function or product; a fixed cost, as a land tax or the like.
  • indiscretions — Plural form of indiscretion.
  • indo-germanic — Indo-European
  • indoctrinated — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
  • indoctrinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indoctrinate.
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • indoor soccer — a form of soccer played indoors by two teams of six players each, usually on a hockey rink covered with a temporary floor with walls to keep the ball in play, in which a player who commits a foul is penalized by suspension from play for a certain amount of time, as in hockey.
  • 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.
  • insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
  • interchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • intercondylar — Anatomy. the smooth surface area at the end of a bone, forming part of a joint.
  • introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
  • jet condenser — a steam condenser in which a jet of water is sprayed into the condenser chamber.
  • kangaroo code — spaghetti code
  • l-d converter — a vessel in which steel is made from pig iron by blowing oxygen into the molten metal through a water-cooled tube
  • ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
  • lepidocrocite — a ruby-red to reddish-brown orthorhombic mineral, iron oxyhydroxide, FeO(OH), dimorphous with goethite: an ore of iron, used as a pigment.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • lexical order — the arrangement of a set of items in accordance with a recursive algorithm, such as the entries in a dictionary whose order depends on their first letter unless these are the same in which case it is the second which decides, and so on
  • london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
  • 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
  • lord advocate — (in Scotland) the chief law officer of the Crown who acts as public prosecutor and is in charge of the administration of criminal justice
  • ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
  • major medical — insurance designed to compensate for particularly large medical expenses due to a severe or prolonged illness, usually by paying a high percentage of medical bills above a certain amount.
  • many-coloured — having many colours
  • matched order — an order placed with a broker to buy a specified stock at a price above the market price with the intention of immediately selling the stock through another broker at the same price. It is designed to give the appearance of active trading in the stock.
  • meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
  • medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
  • melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
  • micr encoding — The MICR encoding of a check is the magnetic ink pattern at the bottom that can be scanned and that contains information about the check.
  • microdetector — an instrument measuring small quantities or changes.
  • microdiskette — Alternative spelling of micro-diskette.
  • middle course — an option or alternative between more extreme alternatives
  • mine detector — an electromagnetic device for locating buried or concealed land mines.
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