13-letter words containing e, r, o, d, i
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
- hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
- hydrochloride — a salt, especially of an alkaloid, formed by the direct union of hydrochloric acid with an organic base that makes the organic constituent more soluble.
- hydroelectric — pertaining to the generation and distribution of electricity derived from the energy of falling water or any other hydraulic source.
- hydrogenating — Present participle of hydrogenate.
- hydrogenation — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrogenizing — Present participle of hydrogenize.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- hydromedusoid — a jellyfish or something resembling a jellyfish that lives in water
- hydronitrogen — a chemical compound containing only hydrogen and nitrogen.
- hydroperoxide — any chemical compound having the general formula, ROOH, where R is an element or an organic group.
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
- hydroxide ion — the anion OH−.
- hydroxylamine — an unstable, weakly basic, crystalline compound, NH 3 O, used as a reducing agent, analytical reagent, and chemical intermediate.
- hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
- hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
- hyperdicrotic — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
- hyperhidrosis — abnormally excessive sweating.
- hyperlordosis — Particularly severe lordosis.
- hypertrophied — abnormal enlargement of a part or organ; excessive growth.
- ideogrammatic — Of or pertaining to ideograms.
- ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- improvidently — In an improvident manner.
- in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- in good order — If something is in good order, it is in good condition.
- in moderation — not to excess
- in order that — used to introduce a clause of purpose
- incident room — An incident room is a room used by the police while they are dealing with a major crime or accident.
- inconsiderate — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
- incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- 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.
- indo-european — a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. Compare family (def 14).
- indo-germanic — Indo-European
- 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
- indoor soccer — a form of soccer played indoors by two teams of six players each, usually on a hockey rink covered with a temporary floor with walls to keep the ball in play, in which a player who commits a foul is penalized by suspension from play for a certain amount of time, as in hockey.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- infomediaries — Plural form of infomediary.
- 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.