13-letter words containing r, i, d, c, u
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- dramaturgical — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
- eta reduction — eta conversion
- extrajudicial — (of a sentence) not legally authorized.
- fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- 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.
- 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).
- glucaric acid — saccharic acid.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- good gracious — Some people say good gracious or goodness gracious in order to express surprise or annoyance.
- 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.
- high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
- hippuric acid — a crystalline solid excreted in the urine of mammals. Formula: C9H9NO3
- hydraulic ram — a device by which the energy of descending water is utilized to raise a part of the water to a height greater than that of the source.
- hydraulically — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
- hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
- hypochondrium — either of two regions of the abdomen, situated on each side of the epigastrium and above the lumbar regions.
- in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- inarticulated — Not articulated; not connected by a joint.
- incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- indirect jump — (programming) A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
- indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
- indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- inner product — Also called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
- introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
- introductions — Plural form of introduction.
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- junior doctor — a doctor in postgraduate training
- jurisdictions — Plural form of jurisdiction.
- jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
- kirkcudbright — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- lacrimal duct — either of two small ducts extending from the inner corner of each eyelid to the lacrimal sac.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
- lucid dreamer — a person who has lucid dreams, either naturally or as a result of training
- ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
- madeira sauce — a savoury sauce made with Madeira wine and served with meat
- magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- mandarin duck — a crested Asian duck, Aix galericulata, having variegated purple, green, chestnut, and white plumage.
- medium-priced — having a price that is neither too high or too low
- mercurialized — Simple past tense and past participle of mercurialize.
- middle course — an option or alternative between more extreme alternatives
- milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- mispronounced — Said wrongly.
- multi-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.