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13-letter words containing p, a, e, d, o

  • donnan uptake — The Donnan uptake is the uptake of an electrolyte (= a substance which electricity can pass through) as a neutral pair of ions during a sorption process.
  • doppelgangers — Plural form of doppelganger.
  • doppler laser — a technique for measuring the shift in frequency between the source and reflected radiation of a laser.
  • doppler radar — a radar tracking system that determines the velocity of a moving object by measuring the Doppler shift of the frequency of a radar signal reflected by the object.
  • double paddle — a paddle with a blade at each end, as that of the kayak.
  • double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • draftspersons — Plural form of draftsperson.
  • drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
  • drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
  • drop-dead fee — a fee paid to an organization lending money to a company that is hoping to use it to finance a takeover bid. The fee is only paid if the bid fails and interest charges are only incurred if the money is needed
  • dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
  • 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.
  • early adopter — a person who uses a new product or technology before it becomes widely known or used.
  • eavesdroppers — Plural form of eavesdropper.
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • elastoplasted — Covered with Elastoplast.
  • electroplated — Simple past tense and past participle of electroplate.
  • encyclopaedia — (chiefly, UK, Australia) alternative spelling of encyclopedia.
  • encyclopaedic — Alternative spelling of encyclopedic.
  • encyclopedian — including a wide circle of learning
  • encyclopedias — Plural form of encyclopedia.
  • endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
  • 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.
  • epanadiplosis — a figure of speech involving the same word being used at the beginning and the end
  • epidotization — the process of changing into epidote
  • epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
  • equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
  • equiponderate — To counterbalance.
  • european toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans, the male of which carries the fertilized eggs on its hind legs until they hatch: family Discoglossidae
  • expeditionary — Of or forming an expedition, especially a military expedition.
  • exponentiated — Simple past tense and past participle of exponentiate.
  • fanfold paper — continuous paper perforated at regular intervals, as used in a dot-matrix printer
  • feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
  • feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • get-up-and-go — energy, drive, and enthusiasm.
  • gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
  • grand opening — celebratory first-day event
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
  • hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
  • heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
  • hermaphrodism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
  • hermaphrodite — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
  • hermaphrodyte — (archaic) alternative spelling of hermaphrodite.
  • herod agrippa — (Julius Agrippa) c10 b.c.–a.d. 44, king of Judea 41–44 (grandson of Herod the Great).
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