13-letter words containing e, n, c, o, d
- encyclopedist — A person who writes, edits, or contributes to an encyclopedia.
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- endocommensal — a commensal living within the body of the host organism
- endocrinology — The branch of physiology and medicine concerned with endocrine glands and hormones.
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- endonucleases — Plural form of endonuclease.
- endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
- endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
- endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
- epicondylitis — A painful inflammation of tendons surrounding an epicondyle.
- 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
- factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
- female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
- 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.
- folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
- france modern — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
- french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- 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.
- garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
- geodesic line — the shortest line lying on a given surface and connecting two given points.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- golden fleece — a fleece of pure gold, kept at Colchis by King Aeëtes from whom it was stolen by Jason and the Argonauts with the help of Aeëtes's daughter, Medea.
- good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
- ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
- ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- 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
- here document — (operating system) Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
- 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
- hexanoic acid — caproic acid.
- homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- iceland poppy — any of various widely cultivated arctic poppies, esp Papaver nudicaule, with white or yellow nodding flowers
- idiomaticness — Idiomaticity.
- ill-concealed — poorly disguised
- ill-conceived — badly conceived or planned: an ill-conceived project.