13-letter words containing d, r, e, c, n, t
- eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
- electioneered — Simple past tense and past participle of electioneer.
- enantiodromic — relating to enantiodromia
- enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
- endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
- endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
- eta reduction — eta conversion
- exotic dancer — a striptease dancer or belly dancer
- extended care — nursing care provided for a limited time after a hospital stay, as in a special facility
- face-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points on the faces of the unit cells.
- friction feed — (printer) A method some printers and plotters use to move paper by rotating one or both of a pair of spring-loaded rubber-coated rollers with the paper sandwiched between them. Friction feed printers are notorious for slipping when the rollers wear out, but can take standard typing paper. For printers with a sheet feeder, friction feed is more appropriate than sprocket feed which requires the holes in the paper to engage with the sprockets of the feed mechanism.
- friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
- garden center — a store that sells gardening supplies, as seeds, plants, fertilizer, and tools.
- garden centre — A garden centre is a large shop, usually with an outdoor area, where you can buy things for your garden such as plants and gardening tools.
- genetic drift — random changes in the frequency of alleles in a gene pool, usually of small populations.
- greeting card — card1 (def 4).
- ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- herd instinct — the impulse or tendency toward clustering or acting in a group, especially the presumed instinct toward or need for gregariousness and conformity.
- here document — (operating system) Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
- heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- identity card — a card for identifying the bearer, giving name, address, and other personal data.
- inarticulated — Not articulated; not connected by a joint.
- 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.
- incredibility — so extraordinary as to seem impossible: incredible speed.
- indeterminacy — the condition or quality of being indeterminate; indetermination.
- 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.
- indirect jump — (programming) A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
- indiscretions — Plural form of indiscretion.
- indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
- 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
- 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.
- interdistrict — a division of territory, as of a country, state, or county, marked off for administrative, electoral, or other purposes.
- interepidemic — Also, epidemical. (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.
- interpandemic — occurring between two pandemics
- introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
- jet condenser — a steam condenser in which a jet of water is sprayed into the condenser chamber.
- kitchen-diner — a kitchen that has an area intended to be used for eating meals, usually because there is no dining room elsewhere
- knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
- 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
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio