13-letter words containing i, d, o, c
- unconstituted — to compose; form: mortar constituted of lime and sand.
- unconstrained — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
- unconstricted — to draw or press in; cause to contract or shrink; compress.
- uncoordinated — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
- underoccupied — not having enough to do or to engage one's attention
- underreaction — to react with less than the expected or appropriate emotion.
- understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- undirectional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- undiscomfited — not discomfited; at ease
- undiscouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- undissociated — not dissociated, especially into ions or into simpler molecules.
- undoctrinaire — a person who does not subscribe to a particular doctrine or theory; a free thinker
- undomesticate — to make wild
- unideological — not having, belonging to, or relating to any particular ideology or belief system
- unpreoccupied — not preoccupied
- up-and-coming — likely to succeed; bright and industrious: an up-and-coming young executive.
- valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
- valproic acid — a carboxylic acid, C 8 H 16 O 2 , used for its antiepileptic properties in the treatment of various seizures including petit mal.
- valued policy — a policy in which the company and the policyholder agree to the amount to be paid in the event of total loss of property, regardless of the value of the property.
- velocity head — the velocity of a fluid expressed in terms of the head or static pressure required to produce that velocity. It equals ρν/2 where ρ is the density of the fluid and ν is the velocity. In hydrology the density of water can be written 1/G where G is the gravitational constant
- versicoloured — of variable or various colours
- victoria land — a region in Antarctica, bordering on the Ross Sea, mainly in Ross Dependency.
- victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
- videocassette — a cassette enclosing a length of tape for video recording or reproduction.
- videorecorded — to record (programs, broadcasts, or the like) on videotape or videodisk.
- videorecorder — an electronic device for recording video signals on magnetic tape or on videodisks.
- vindicatorily — in a vindicatory manner
- votive candle — religion: candle lit in prayer
- wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
- web directory — a database of selected websites, ordered in such a way as to facilitate browsing
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
- well-combined — made by combining; joined; united, as in a chemical compound.
- werecrocodile — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crocodile.
- widow's cruse — an inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10–16 and II Kings 4:1–7.
- wind scorpion — sun spider.
- windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
- windsor chair — a wooden chair of many varieties, having a spindle back and legs slanting outward: common in 18th-century England and in the American colonies.
- windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
- wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- wire recorder — a forerunner of the tape recorder that recorded sound on a steel wire by magnetizing the wire as it passed an electromagnet.
- wolffian duct — a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females.
- wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
- wooden nickel — a useless thing; thing of no value
- world service — a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which transmits programmes in many languages around the world
- yourdon, inc. — (company) The company founded in 1974 by Edward Yourdon to provide educational, publishing, and consulting services in state-of-the-art software engineering technology. Over the next 12 years, the company grew to a staff of over 150 people, with offices throughout North America and Europe. As CEO of the company, Yourdon oversaw an operation that trained over 250,000 people around the world; the company was sold in 1986 and eventually became part of CGI, the French software company that is now part of IBM. The publishing division, Yourdon Press (now part of Prentice Hall), has produced over 150 technical computer books on a wide range of software engineering topics; many of these "classics" are used as standard university computer science textbooks.
- zinc chloride — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous solid, ZnCl 2 , used chiefly as a wood preservative, as a disinfectant and antiseptic, and in the manufacture of vulcanized fiber, parchment paper, and soldering fluxes.