13-letter words containing h, i, n, d, e
- chronologized — to arrange in chronological order.
- codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
- come in handy — If something comes in handy, it is useful in a particular situation.
- commandership — a person who commands.
- comprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- conidiophores — Plural form of conidiophore.
- core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
- cough and die — (jargon) barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
- 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.
- cyberchondria — unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one's health brought on by visiting health and medical websites
- 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
- dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
- das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- death benefit — the benefit payable if the holder of a life insurance policy dies before the policy matures
- death-dealing — fatal; lethal
- decahistidine — An oligopeptide consisting of ten histidine moieties.
- decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
- dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
- deemphasizing — Present participle of deemphasize.
- dehydrogenize — dehydrogenate.
- deipnosophist — a person who is a master of dinner-table conversation
- delightedness — The quality of being delighted; great pleasure.
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
- dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
- desynchronize — Disturb the synchronization of; put out of step or phase.
- diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- dieffenbachia — any of various plants belonging to the genus Dieffenbachia, of the arum family, native to tropical America, often cultivated as houseplants for their decorative foliage.
- dien bien phu — a town in NW Vietnam: site of defeat of French forces by Vietminh 1954, bringing to an end the French rule of Indochina.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- digby chicken — a smoked herring.
- diiodomethane — methylene iodide.
- dilettanteish — Alternative form of dilettantish.
- dimethylamine — a colourless strong-smelling gas produced from ammonia and methanol, used to produce many industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals
- dinitrophenol — any of the six isomers consisting of phenol where two hydrogen atoms are substituted by nitro groups, C 6 H 4 N 2 O 5 , used in dyes and wood preservatives, and in biochemistry to uncouple oxidative phosphorylation.
- diphenoxylate — a substance, C 30 H 32 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride in the treatment of diarrhea.
- diphenylamine — a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble benzene derivative, C 12 H 11 N, used chiefly in the preparation of various dyes, as a stabilizer for nitrocellulose propellants, and for the detection of oxidizing agents in analytical chemistry.
- diphthongized — Simple past tense and past participle of diphthongize.
- disenchanting — Present participle of disenchant.
- disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of disfranchise.
- disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
- disharmonized — Simple past tense and past participle of disharmonize.
- disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disinheriting — Present participle of disinherit.
- disinthralled — freed from thraldom
- dispense with — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.