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13-letter words containing e, a, r, n, i

  • dragging-beam — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
  • drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
  • drainage wind — Meteorology. gravity wind.
  • drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
  • draw the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
  • drawing paper — artist's paper for drawing and sketching
  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • dresden china — porcelain ware produced at Meissen, Germany, near Dresden, after 1710.
  • dressing case — a small piece of luggage for carrying toilet articles, medicine, etc.
  • dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
  • drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
  • driving range — a tract of land for practicing long golf shots, especially drives, with clubs and balls available for rent from the management.
  • drum magazine — a receptacle that holds and feeds cartridges to a submachine gun or light machine gun.
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • dumb terminal — (hardware)   A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
  • dynamic range — the range of signal amplitudes over which an electronic communications channel can operate within acceptable limits of distortion. The range is determined by system noise at the lower end and by the onset of overload at the upper end
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • ear infection — an infection that affects the ear
  • ear-splitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
  • earl palatine — count palatine (def 2).
  • early closing — shop closure at earlier hour
  • early english — pertaining to the first style of Gothic architecture in England, ending in the latter half of the 13th century, characterized by the use of lancet arches, plate tracery, and narrow openings.
  • early warning — An early warning system warns people that something bad is likely to happen, for example that a machine is about to stop working, or that a country is being attacked.
  • early-evening — taking place or being presented in the early part of the evening
  • early-morning — taking place or being presented in the early part of the morning
  • earned income — income from wages, salaries, fees, or the like, accruing from labor or services performed by the earner.
  • earning power — business: ability to profit
  • earth science — any of various sciences, as geography, geology, or meteorology, that deal with the earth, its composition, or any of its changing aspects.
  • earth station — a terminal equipped to receive, or receive and transmit, signals from or to communications satellites.
  • east berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
  • east germanic — a branch of the Germanic languages no longer extant, comprising Gothic and probably others of which there are no written records. Abbreviation: EGmc.
  • east prussian — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
  • easter egging — (jargon)   (IBM, From the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in the US and many parts of Europe) The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in the hope that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not love them for it. Compare Easter egg, shotgun debugging.
  • easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
  • easter rising — an armed insurrection in Dublin in 1916 against British rule in Ireland: the insurgents proclaimed the establishment of an independent Irish republic before surrendering, 16 of the leaders later being executed
  • eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • eccentrically — deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd: eccentric conduct; an eccentric person.
  • edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
  • electrization — the action of electrifying
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
  • embracingness — the quality of something that embraces
  • embryonically — In an embryonic way.
  • emigrationist — a person who promotes emigration
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