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

  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
  • eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
  • electioneered — Simple past tense and past participle of electioneer.
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • enantiodromia — (psychiatry, according to Carl Jung) The principle whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium.
  • enantiodromic — relating to enantiodromia
  • endometriosis — A condition resulting from the appearance of endometrial tissue outside the uterus and causing pelvic pain.
  • endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
  • endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
  • endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
  • equidifferent — equilateral; having differences that are equal
  • equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
  • equiponderate — To counterbalance.
  • eta reduction — eta conversion
  • evidentiarily — In an evidentiary way.
  • exotic dancer — a striptease dancer or belly dancer
  • expeditionary — Of or forming an expedition, especially a military expedition.
  • extraordinary — Very unusual or remarkable.
  • faint-hearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
  • farther india — a peninsula in SE Asia, between India and China: consists of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaysia
  • fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour)   A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
  • fingerprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerprint.
  • first edition — the whole number of copies of a literary work printed first, from the same type, and issued together.
  • first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
  • forementioned — Mentioned earlier or above; already cited.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
  • friction feed — (printer)   A method some printers and plotters use to move paper by rotating one or both of a pair of spring-loaded rubber-coated rollers with the paper sandwiched between them. Friction feed printers are notorious for slipping when the rollers wear out, but can take standard typing paper. For printers with a sheet feeder, friction feed is more appropriate than sprocket feed which requires the holes in the paper to engage with the sprockets of the feed mechanism.
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • genetic drift — random changes in the frequency of alleles in a gene pool, usually of small populations.
  • genital ridge — the area in the vertebrate embryo that develops into ovaries in the female and testes in the male.
  • ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
  • giant ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
  • glittertinden — the highest peak in Norway, in the S central part. 8110 feet (2473 meters).
  • goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
  • gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
  • gradient wind — a wind with a velocity and direction that are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force to the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • greeting card — card1 (def 4).
  • hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.
  • harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
  • headline rate — a basic rate of inflation, taxation, etc, before distorting factors have been removed
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