13-letter words containing d, r, y, o, c
- indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- intercondylar — Anatomy. the smooth surface area at the end of a bone, forming part of a joint.
- iridocyclitis — (medicine) A type of anterior uveitis.
- macrodynamics — Large-scale dynamics.
- many-coloured — having many colours
- mollycoddlers — Plural form of mollycoddler.
- monkey orchid — a European orchid, Orchis simia, rare in Britain, having a short dense flower spike that opens from the top downwards. The flowers are white streaked with pink or violet and have five spurs thought to resemble a monkey's arms, legs, and tail
- monoglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of one hydroxyl group with a fatty acid.
- myocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a myocardiograph.
- non-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- overcredulity — Excessive credulity.
- paradoxically — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- partly cloudy — sky: not constantly clear
- party-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
- postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
- pre-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- pro-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- producibility — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- pycnidiospore — the fruiting body of certain fungi, which contains spore-bearing cells
- radioactivity — the phenomenon, exhibited by and being a property of certain elements, of spontaneously emitting radiation resulting from changes in the nuclei of atoms of the element.
- recollectedly — in a recollected manner
- recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
- record player — phonograph.
- royal academy — a society founded in 1768 by George III of England for the establishment of a school of design and the holding of an annual exhibition of the works of living artists.
- scotland yard — a short street in central London, England: formerly the site of the London police headquarters, which were removed 1890 to a Thames embankment (New Scotland Yard, ).
- secondary era — the period from the beginning of the Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- synchondrosis — the joining of two bones by cartilage
- the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
- thyroidectomy — excision of all or a part of the thyroid gland.
- victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
- vindicatorily — in a vindicatory manner
- web directory — a database of selected websites, ordered in such a way as to facilitate browsing
- yourdon, inc. — (company) The company founded in 1974 by Edward Yourdon to provide educational, publishing, and consulting services in state-of-the-art software engineering technology. Over the next 12 years, the company grew to a staff of over 150 people, with offices throughout North America and Europe. As CEO of the company, Yourdon oversaw an operation that trained over 250,000 people around the world; the company was sold in 1986 and eventually became part of CGI, the French software company that is now part of IBM. The publishing division, Yourdon Press (now part of Prentice Hall), has produced over 150 technical computer books on a wide range of software engineering topics; many of these "classics" are used as standard university computer science textbooks.