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

  • divine comedy — a narrative epic poem (14th century) by Dante.
  • divine office — office (def 12c).
  • documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
  • documentarian — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
  • documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
  • documentation — the use of documentary evidence.
  • documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
  • domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • domino effect — the cumulative effect that results when one event precipitates a series of like events.
  • double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
  • double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • driving force — impetus
  • dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
  • dynamic scope — (language)   In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
  • dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
  • ear infection — an infection that affects the ear
  • early closing — shop closure at earlier hour
  • earned income — income from wages, salaries, fees, or the like, accruing from labor or services performed by the earner.
  • echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • eco-labelling — the practice or system of using eco-labels
  • economic good — a commodity or service that can be utilized to satisfy human wants and that has exchange value.
  • economic rent — the return on a productive resource, as land or labor, that is greater than the amount necessary to keep the resource producing or on a product in excess of what would have been the return except for some unique factor.
  • economization — The act or practice of using resources to the best effect.
  • economy drive — a campaign by the government or a firm to reduce expenditure and make savings
  • ectosymbionts — Plural form of ectosymbiont.
  • 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.
  • educationally — pertaining to education.
  • educationists — Plural form of educationist.
  • egocentricity — The quality of being egocentric.
  • egomaniacally — In an egomaniacal manner.
  • eigenfunction — Each of a set of independent functions that are the solutions to a given differential equation.
  • ejection seat — a seat, esp as fitted to military aircraft, that is fired by a cartridge or rocket to eject the occupant from the aircraft in an emergency
  • electioneered — Simple past tense and past participle of electioneer.
  • electioneerer — One who electioneers.
  • electrization — the action of electrifying
  • electrocuting — Present participle of electrocute.
  • electrocution — The accidental death or suicide by electric shock.
  • electrolyzing — Present participle of electrolyze.
  • electrophonic — Relating to electronic equipment to produce sound (this adjectival sense is not comparable).
  • electrotyping — The act or process of making electrotypes.
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