13-letter words containing e, c, t, o, d
- epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
- eta reduction — eta conversion
- ethanoic acid — acetic acid
- ethnomedicine — (medicine) traditional folk-medicine.
- eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
- eudicotyledon — any plant belonging to one of the two major groups of flowering plants, comprising over 60 per cent of all plants, normally having net-veined leaves and two cotyledons in the seed
- exotic dancer — a striptease dancer or belly dancer
- export credit — a loan extended to an importer by a bank in the country of the exporter in order to finance an export operation
- factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
- federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
- fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
- fictionalized — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- friction feed — (printer) A method some printers and plotters use to move paper by rotating one or both of a pair of spring-loaded rubber-coated rollers with the paper sandwiched between them. Friction feed printers are notorious for slipping when the rollers wear out, but can take standard typing paper. For printers with a sheet feeder, friction feed is more appropriate than sprocket feed which requires the holes in the paper to engage with the sprockets of the feed mechanism.
- 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.
- galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
- glycopeptides — Plural form of glycopeptide.
- ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
- here document — (operating system) Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
- heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
- heterodimeric — (chemistry) produced from two similar but different monomers.
- hexadactylous — hexadactylic
- homestead act — a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
- homoscedastic — having the same variance.
- hydroelectric — pertaining to the generation and distribution of electricity derived from the energy of falling water or any other hydraulic source.
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
- hyperdicrotic — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
- hypoeutectoid — (of steel) having less carbon than the 0.8 percent of eutectoid steel.
- ideogrammatic — Of or pertaining to ideograms.
- idiomaticness — Idiomaticity.
- in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- incident room — An incident room is a room used by the police while they are dealing with a major crime or accident.
- incidentaloma — an abnormal lesion or tumor detected by chance during a medical imaging test, physical examination, or surgery.
- incommodities — Plural form of incommodity.
- inconsiderate — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
- indirect cost — a business cost that is not directly accountable to a particular function or product; a fixed cost, as a land tax or the like.
- indiscretions — Plural form of indiscretion.
- indoctrinated — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
- indoctrinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indoctrinate.
- indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- 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.
- insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
- interchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- intercondylar — Anatomy. the smooth surface area at the end of a bone, forming part of a joint.