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13-letter words containing n, e, c, s, i

  • antioncogenes — Plural form of antioncogene.
  • antiparticles — Plural form of antiparticle.
  • antipesticide — opposed to the use of pesticides
  • antirecession — acting against recession
  • antiresonance — a phenomenon in an electric, acoustic, or other such system in which the impedance is tending to infinity.
  • antiselection — adverse selection.
  • antisepticise — to render antiseptic
  • antisepticism — the treatment of sepsis using antiseptics
  • antisepticize — to treat with an antiseptic
  • antisymmetric — (of a relation) never holding between a pair of arguments x and y when it holds between y and x except when x = y, as "…is no younger than…"
  • apicomplexans — Plural form of apicomplexan.
  • apperceptions — Plural form of apperception.
  • appreciations — Plural form of appreciation.
  • arcus senilis — an opaque circle around the cornea of the eye, often seen in elderly people
  • arias sanchez — Oscar. born 1940, Costa Rican statesman; president (1986–90, 2006–2010); Nobel peace prize 1987
  • aristolochene — (organic compound) A bicyclic sesquiterpene produced by certain fungi.
  • arsenous acid — a toxic white powder, As2O3, used to make other arsenic compounds, insecticides, and preservatives; white arsenic
  • arundinaceous — resembling a reed
  • ascension day — the 40th day after Easter, when the Ascension of Christ into heaven is celebrated
  • ascensiontide — the ten days from Ascension Day to the day before Whit Sunday
  • ascertainable — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
  • ascertainably — In a way that can be ascertained.
  • ascertainment — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
  • aschelminthes — a major grouping (formerly a phylum) of small-to-microscopic pseudocoelomate organisms, as the rotifers, nematodes, and gastrotriches, all of which are now classified as separate phyla.
  • ascoli piceno — a town in E central Italy, in the Marches: capital of the Roman province of Picenum; site of the massacre of all its Roman citizens in the Social War in 90 bc. Pop: 51 375 (2001)
  • atrociousness — The state of being atrocious.
  • auction house — a commercial company that specializes in selling items at auction
  • audaciousness — Risky or daring behaviour.
  • authenticates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authenticate.
  • automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
  • back emission — the secondary emission of electrons from an anode
  • backbone site — A key Usenet, electronic mail and/or Internet site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of early 1993 include uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University and the University of Texas. Compare rib site, leaf site.
  • backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
  • bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
  • banister back — a back of a chair or the like, usually having semicircular spindles between the top rail and the cross rail or seat.
  • baseline cost — the projected cost for an undertaking at the time it is budgeted
  • basic english — a simplified form of English, proposed by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, containing a vocabulary of approximately 850 of the commonest English words, intended as an international language
  • bass clarinet — a clarinet with the lowest range, in the octave below the B-flat clarinet
  • beneficiary's — a person or group that receives benefits, profits, or advantages.
  • bewick's swan — a white Old World swan, Cygnus bewickii, having a black bill with a small yellow base
  • bicentennials — pertaining to or in honor of a 200th anniversary: bicentennial celebration; a bicentennial exposition.
  • bignoniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bignoniaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees, shrubs, and lianas, including jacaranda, bignonia, and catalpa
  • binary search — (algorithm)   A search algorithm which repeatedly divides an ordered search space in half according to how the required (key) value compares with the middle element. The following pseudo-C routine performs a binary search return the index of the element of vector "thing[first..last]" equal to "target": if (target < thing[first] || target > thing[last]) return NOT_FOUND; while (first < last) { mid = (first+last)/2; /* truncate to integer */ if (target == thing[mid]) return mid; if (target < thing[mid]) last = mid-1; else first = mid+1; } if (target == thing[last]) return last; return NOT_FOUND; (2003-01-14)
  • binding screw — a screw used to secure one thing to another
  • bioconversion — the use of biological processes or materials to change organic substances into a new form, such as the conversion of waste into methane by fermentation
  • bioenergetics — the study of energy transformations in living organisms and systems
  • biogeneticist — genetic engineering.
  • bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
  • bitch session — a discussion in which people complain or gripe, usually about a shared experience: Their first date turned into a four-hour bitch session about their ex-spouses' lawyers.
  • bits per inch — (unit)   (BPI) A measure of the recording density of a magnetic tape or disk.
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