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13-letter words containing o, d, i, u

  • eudicotyledon — any plant belonging to one of the two major groups of flowering plants, comprising over 60 per cent of all plants, normally having net-veined leaves and two cotyledons in the seed
  • expeditiously — In an expeditious manner.
  • ferrous oxide — a black powder, FeO, insoluble in water, soluble in acid.
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
  • fiddle around — waste time doing sth trivial
  • figure-ground — a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background.
  • filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
  • fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
  • fold function — (programming)   In functional programming, fold or "reduce" is a kind of higher-order function that takes as arguments a function, an initial "accumulator" value and a data structure (often a list). In Haskell, the two flavours of fold for lists, called foldl and foldr are defined like this: foldl :: (a -> b -> a) -> a -> [b] -> a foldl f z [] = z foldl f z (x:xs) = foldl f (f z x) xs foldr :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> [a] -> b foldr f z [] = z foldr f z (x:xs) = f x (foldr f z xs) In both cases, if the input list is empty, the result is the value of the accumulator, z. If not, foldl takes the head of the list, x, and returns the result of recursing on the tail of the list using (f z x) as the new z. foldr returns (f x q) where q is the result of recursing on the tail. The "l" and "r" in the names refer to the associativity of the application of f. Thus if f = (+) (the binary plus operator used as a function of two arguments), we have: foldl (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = (((0 + 1) + 2) + 3 (applying + left associatively) and foldr (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = 0 + (1 + (2 + 3)) (applying + right associatively). For +, this makes no difference but for an non-commutative operator it would.
  • food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • food supplies — food obtained for a household or for a country, an expedition, etc
  • foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
  • fortitudinous — having or showing fortitude; marked by bravery or courage.
  • foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
  • gheorghiu-dej — Gheorghe [gyawr-ge] /ˈgyɔr gɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–65, Romanian statesman: premier 1952–55; president of the state council 1961–65.
  • gluconic acid — a colorless, water-soluble acid, C 6 H 12 O 7 , obtained by the oxidation of glucose, used commercially in a 50-percent solution for cleaning metals.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
  • golfe du lion — French name of the Gulf of Lions.
  • good gracious — Some people say good gracious or goodness gracious in order to express surprise or annoyance.
  • good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry
  • gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
  • gourmandizing — Present participle of gourmandize.
  • grand guignol — a short drama stressing horror and sensationalism.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grandiloquous — grandiloquent
  • ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
  • ground-to-air — (of weapons) designed to be fired at aircraft from the ground
  • groundnut oil — a mild-tasting oil extracted from peanuts and used in cooking
  • gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
  • gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
  • haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
  • high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
  • high-sounding — having an impressive or pretentious sound; grand: the high-sounding titles of minor officials.
  • house-trained — housebroken.
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
  • hudson strait — a strait connecting Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. 450 miles (725 km) long; 100 miles (160 km) wide.
  • hunting lodge — a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday when they want to go hunting
  • hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
  • hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
  • hybrid vigour — the increased size, strength, etc, of a hybrid as compared to either of its parents
  • hydromedusoid — a jellyfish or something resembling a jellyfish that lives in water
  • hydronium ion — the hydrogen ion bonded to a molecule of water, H 3 O + , the form in which hydrogen ions are found in aqueous solution.
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
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