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

  • documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
  • documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • dodecahedrons — Plural form of dodecahedron.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • early closing — shop closure at earlier hour
  • 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
  • economy class — a low-priced type of accommodation for travel, especially on an airplane.
  • ectocommensal — Biology. (of an organism) living in a commensal relationship on the exterior of another organism.
  • 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.
  • educationists — Plural form of educationist.
  • efflorescence — the state or a period of flowering.
  • 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
  • elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
  • eleanor cross — any of the crosses erected at each place where the body of Eleanor of Castile (1246–90, Edward I's Spanish wife) rested between Nottingham (where she died) and London (where she is buried)
  • electron lens — a system, such as an arrangement of electrodes or magnets, that produces a field for focusing a beam of electrons
  • electrophones — Plural form of electrophone.
  • electrostrong — (physics) describing the combination of the electromagnetic and strong nuclear forces.
  • emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.
  • encapsulation — The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
  • encomiastical — Alternative form of encomiastic.
  • encompassable — Capable of being encompassed.
  • encompassment — The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded.
  • encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
  • encrustations — Plural form of encrustation.
  • encyclopedias — Plural form of encyclopedia.
  • encyclopedism — Comprehensive learning or knowledge.
  • encyclopedist — A person who writes, edits, or contributes to an encyclopedia.
  • endocommensal — a commensal living within the body of the host organism
  • endonucleases — Plural form of endonuclease.
  • endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
  • endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
  • endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
  • ensorcellment — Enchantment, bewitchment.
  • enterocolitis — Inflammation of both the small intestine and the colon.
  • entomostracan — any small crustacean of the group (formerly subclass) Entomostraca, including the branchiopods, ostracods, and copepods
  • epicondylitis — A painful inflammation of tendons surrounding an epicondyle.
  • episcopalians — Plural form of episcopalian.
  • equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
  • equivocations — Plural form of equivocation.
  • escort agency — an agency where people, esp young women, may be hired to accompany someone for entertainment, etc
  • ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
  • ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
  • eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
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