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13-letter words containing e, d, i, r

  • credit bureau — an agency that is a clearinghouse for information on the credit rating of individuals or firms
  • credit crunch — A credit crunch is a period during which there is a sudden reduction in the amount of money that banks and other lenders have available to lend.
  • credit rating — Your credit rating is a judgment of how likely you are to pay money back if you borrow it or buy things on credit.
  • creditability — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
  • creep-feeding — the practice of feeding young farm animals (esp piglets, calves, and lambs) in a sectioned-off part of their indoor environment, in order to prevent the mother from gaining access to the food
  • crested swift — any of several birds of the family Hemiprocnidae, of southeast Asia and the East Indies, related to the true swifts but differing in having erectile crests and the habit of perching in trees.
  • criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
  • cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
  • cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
  • crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
  • crossdressing — to dress in clothing typically worn by members of the opposite sex.
  • culture fluid — the fluid used as a medium for growing microorganisms
  • current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
  • cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
  • cut-and-dried — prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
  • cutter-rigged — fore-and-aft-rigged on one mast in the manner of a cutter.
  • cyberchondria — unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one's health brought on by visiting health and medical websites
  • cylinder desk — a desk having a cylinder front, usually a tambour but occasionally of solid wood.
  • cylinder head — the detachable metal casting that fits onto the top of a cylinder block. In an engine it contains part of the combustion chamber and in an overhead-valve four-stroke engine it houses the valves and their operating mechanisms
  • cylinder seal — a cylindrical seal of stone, clay, or precious stone decorated with linear designs, found in the Middle East and Balkans: dating from about 6000 bc
  • cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
  • daily-breader — a commuter.
  • dairy produce — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • danger signal — any type of signal that indicates danger
  • dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
  • dare i say it — You use 'dare I say it' when you know that what you are going to say will disappoint or annoy someone.
  • dark internet — Also called dark Net, lost Net. the portion of the Internet that is hidden from search engines and cannot be accessed, as because the IP address is no longer working.
  • dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
  • darling range — a ridge in SW Western Australia, parallel to the coast. Highest point: about 582 m (1669 ft)
  • darling river — a river in SE Australia, rising in the Eastern Highlands and flowing southwest to the Murray River. Length: 2740 km (1702 miles)
  • das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
  • dastardliness — The state or quality of being dastardly.
  • data security — the protection of data stored on computers
  • date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
  • daydreamingly — While daydreaming.
  • death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
  • deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
  • decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
  • decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
  • decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
  • decentralised — Simple past tense and past participle of decentralise.
  • decentralized — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
  • decentralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decentralize.
  • decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
  • decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
  • dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
  • decision tree — a treelike diagram illustrating the choices available to a decision maker, each possible decision and its estimated outcome being shown as a separate branch of the tree
  • decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
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