13-letter words containing n, e, d, t
- downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
- draft version — a preliminary version
- draftspersons — Plural form of draftsperson.
- dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
- drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
- drama student — a student who is training to become an actor
- draw the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- dronkverdriet — drunk and maudlin
- drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
- dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- dummy element — an otherwise empty element that stands in for and holds the position of another element in a sentence
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- east flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1150 sq. mi. (2980 sq. km). Capital: Ghent.
- easter candle — a tall candle, symbolizing Christ, that is sometimes blessed and placed on the gospel side of an altar on Holy Saturday and kept burning until Ascension Day.
- easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
- easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
- easter sunday — Easter (def 2).
- eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
- eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
- 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.
- edmund gunter — Edmund, 1581–1626, English mathematician and astronomer: inventor of various measuring instruments and scales.
- educationally — pertaining to education.
- educationists — Plural form of educationist.
- eggs benedict — dish of poached eggs, ham and cream
- electioneered — Simple past tense and past participle of electioneer.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- emotionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of emotionalize.
- 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
- enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
- encyclopedist — A person who writes, edits, or contributes to an encyclopedia.
- endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- 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.
- endopeptidase — An enzyme that breaks peptide bonds other than terminal ones in a peptide chain.
- endophenotype — (medicine) any hereditary characteristic that is normally associated with some condition but is not a direct symptom of that condition.
- endoskeletons — Plural form of endoskeleton.
- endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
- endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
- endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
- ensanguinated — stained with blood
- epicondylitis — A painful inflammation of tendons surrounding an epicondyle.
- epidotization — the process of changing into epidote
- equidifferent — equilateral; having differences that are equal
- equidistantly — In an equidistant manner or to an equidistant degree.
- equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced