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