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

  • extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
  • fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour)   A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
  • fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
  • 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.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • herd immunity — the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.
  • house-trained — housebroken.
  • housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
  • hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
  • ideal mixture — An ideal mixture is a mixture in which the concentration of any part taken from it is the same as the average for the whole.
  • inarticulated — Not articulated; not connected by a joint.
  • indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
  • index futures — a form of financial futures based on projected movement of a share price index, such as the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Share Index
  • india drugget — drugget (def 1).
  • indirect jump — (programming)   A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
  • indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
  • industrialise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of industrialize.
  • industrialize — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
  • industry-wide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
  • injured party — victim
  • 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.
  • insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • inter-assured — to make (a future event) sure; ensure: This contract assures the company's profit this month.
  • interindustry — occurring or existing between two or more industries
  • interruptedly — In an interrupted manner.
  • introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
  • lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
  • magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • medium quarto — a size of book, about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 4to.
  • midterm blues — the tendency of electorate to grow disillusioned with government around halfway through its term of office
  • misadventured — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • misadventurer — a person who experiences misadventure or misfortune
  • misadventures — Plural form of misadventure.
  • misattributed — Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute.
  • misunderstand — to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
  • misunderstood — improperly understood or interpreted.
  • mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
  • mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • multicoloured — Alternative spelling of multicolored.
  • multicultured — Having more than one culture.
  • multicylinder — having more than one cylinder, as an internal-combustion or steam engine.
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