13-letter words containing e, a, c, h, n, d
- disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
- dodecahedrane — (organic compound) One of the Platonic hydrocarbons, C20H20, having the carbon atoms at the vertices of a regular dodecahedron.
- dodecahedrons — Plural form of dodecahedron.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- donald cherry — Donald Eugene ("Don") 1936–95, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- dresden china — porcelain ware produced at Meissen, Germany, near Dresden, after 1710.
- enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- ethanoic acid — acetic acid
- finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
- french canada — the areas of Canada, esp in the province of Quebec, where French Canadians predominate
- 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 orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
- gnathic index — Craniometry. the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed in percent of the latter.
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
- h and d curve — characteristic curve.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- hand-stitched — stitched by hand rather than by a machine
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- hard currency — money that is backed by gold reserves and is readily convertible into foreign currencies.
- hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- hendecahedron — a solid figure having 11 faces.
- heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
- hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
- heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
- hexactinellid — a type of sponge characterized by their (usually) six siliceous spicules or rays
- hexanoic acid — caproic acid.
- hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
- hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
- interchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- knuckleheaded — Stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.
- lichenic acid — fumaric acid.
- list enhanced — (operating system, tool) An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
- machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
- magnetic head — head (def 33).
- maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
- merchandisers — Plural form of merchandiser.
- merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
- method acting — film, theater: acting approach
- monochromated — Fitted with a monochromator.
- mood enhancer — something, esp a drug, that has the effect of lifting a person's mood
- much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- niedersachsen — German name of Lower Saxony.