13-letter words containing i, d, o, c, e, s
- edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.
- educationists — Plural form of educationist.
- encyclopedias — Plural form of encyclopedia.
- encyclopedism — Comprehensive learning or knowledge.
- encyclopedist — A person who writes, edits, or contributes to an encyclopedia.
- 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.
- eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
- fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
- 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.
- galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
- geodesic dome — a light, domelike structure developed by R. Buckminster Fuller to combine the properties of the tetrahedron and the sphere and consisting essentially of a grid of compression or tension members lying upon or parallel to great circles running in three directions in any given area, the typical form being the projection upon a sphere of an icosahedron, the triangular faces of which are filled with a symmetrical triangular, hexagonal, or quadrangular grid.
- geodesic line — the shortest line lying on a given surface and connecting two given points.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- glycopeptides — Plural form of glycopeptide.
- goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
- 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.
- 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
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- 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.
- homoscedastic — having the same variance.
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- idiomaticness — Idiomaticity.
- in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- incommodities — Plural form of incommodity.
- incondensable — not condensable; incapable of being condensed.
- 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.
- indissociable — Unable to be dissociated.
- indoctrinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indoctrinate.
- 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.
- insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
- judiciousness — The state of being judicious.
- kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
- lines of code — (programming, unit) (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
- mastoidectomy — the removal of part of a mastoid process, usually for draining an infection.
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines