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13-letter words containing d, r, u, i, c

  • reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
  • reducibleness — the extent, state or quality of being reducible
  • reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
  • reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
  • reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
  • ring compound — a compound whose structural formula contains a closed chain or ring of atoms; a cyclic compound. Compare cyclic (def 3).
  • rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
  • ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
  • scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
  • semiconductor — a substance, as silicon or germanium, with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor: a basic component of various kinds of electronic circuit element (semiconductor device) used in communications, control, and detection technology and in computers.
  • spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
  • sulfuric acid — a clear, colorless to brownish, dense, oily, corrosive, water-miscible liquid, H 2 SO 4 , usually produced from sulfur dioxide: used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, chemicals, explosives, and dyestuffs and in petroleum refining.
  • supercollider — a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy.
  • telluric acid — a white, toxic, crystalline compound, H 6 TeO 6 , slightly soluble in cold water, soluble in hot water and alkalis: used as an analytical agent.
  • thoracic duct — the main trunk of the lymphatic system, passing along the spinal column in the thoracic cavity, and conveying a large amount of lymph and chyle into the venous circulation.
  • trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
  • trinucleotide — three linked nucleotides; triplet.
  • turbidimetric — from, using, or relating to a turbidimeter or turbidimetry
  • ultra-radical — of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference.
  • un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
  • unappreciated — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
  • unarticulated — not articulated
  • unascertained — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
  • uncategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • uncentralized — to draw to or gather about a center.
  • unchlorinated — not chlorinated; not treated with chlorine
  • uncircumcised — not circumcised.
  • uncompromised — unable to function optimally, especially with regard to immune response, owing to underlying disease, harmful environmental exposure, or the side effects of a course of treatment.
  • unconsidering — not reflective or thoughtful
  • unconstrained — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
  • unconstricted — to draw or press in; cause to contract or shrink; compress.
  • uncoordinated — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • undepreciated — to reduce the purchasing value of (money).
  • under licence — If someone does something under licence, they do it by special permission from a government or other authority.
  • under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
  • underachiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
  • underactivity — insufficient activity
  • undercarriage — the supporting framework underneath a vehicle, as an automobile or trailer; the structure to which the wheels, tracks, or the like are attached or fitted.
  • underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
  • underclubbing — the action of hitting with a club resulting in insufficient distance
  • underfinanced — Underfinanced means the same as underfunded.
  • underniceness — a lack of niceness
  • underoccupied — not having enough to do or to engage one's attention
  • underreaction — to react with less than the expected or appropriate emotion.
  • understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
  • undescribable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
  • undescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • undifferenced — (of a coat of arms) having no marks indicating family position and to be used by only one person at a time
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