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13-letter words containing d, u, r, n, e

  • honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
  • horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
  • house-trained — housebroken.
  • housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
  • hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
  • hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
  • ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
  • in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
  • inarticulated — Not articulated; not connected by a joint.
  • incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
  • index futures — a form of financial futures based on projected movement of a share price index, such as the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Share Index
  • india drugget — drugget (def 1).
  • indian runner — one of a breed of domestic ducks.
  • indian summer — a period of mild, dry weather, usually accompanied by a hazy atmosphere, occurring usually in late October or early November and following a period of colder weather.
  • 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.
  • indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
  • indo-european — a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. Compare family (def 14).
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
  • industrialise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of industrialize.
  • industrialize — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
  • industry-wide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
  • injured party — victim
  • 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.
  • inodorousness — the quality of being inodorous
  • insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • inter-assured — to make (a future event) sure; ensure: This contract assures the company's profit this month.
  • interindustry — occurring or existing between two or more industries
  • interruptedly — In an interrupted manner.
  • introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
  • junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
  • jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
  • knuckle under — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
  • knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
  • lavender-blue — coloured between blue and pale or light bluish-purple to a very pale violet colour
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • lounge around — to pass time idly and indolently.
  • lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
  • ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
  • magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • many-coloured — having many colours
  • measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
  • middle ground — an intermediate position, area, or recourse between two opposites or extremes; a halfway or neutral standpoint.
  • minimum order — A minimum order is the smallest amount or number that may be ordered in one delivery, usually to spread delivery costs over an economical number of units.
  • misadventured — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • misadventurer — a person who experiences misadventure or misfortune
  • misadventures — Plural form of misadventure.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • misdemeanours — Plural form of misdemeanour.
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