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13-letter words containing s, e, r, i, d, n

  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • golden shiner — a small, silvery freshwater minnow, Notemigonus crysoleucas, native to eastern North America and introduced into western North America: often used as live bait in sport fishing.
  • goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
  • gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
  • 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
  • grandioseness — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • grimes golden — a yellow variety of apple that ripens in late autumn.
  • 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.
  • hairdressings — Plural form of hairdressing.
  • handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
  • harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
  • head shrinker — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • head-shrinker — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • headshrinkers — Plural form of headshrinker.
  • herd instinct — the impulse or tendency toward clustering or acting in a group, especially the presumed instinct toward or need for gregariousness and conformity.
  • hereditaments — Plural form of hereditament.
  • hereditarians — Plural form of hereditarian.
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
  • horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
  • horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
  • house-trained — housebroken.
  • housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
  • 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.
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
  • ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
  • imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
  • in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
  • in medias res — in the middle of things.
  • incense cedar — any of several coniferous trees of the genus Libocedrus (or Calocedrus), especially L. decurrens, of the western U.S., growing to a height of 150 feet (50 meters).
  • inconsiderate — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
  • incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
  • indescribable — not describable; too extraordinary for description: a scene of indescribable confusion; indescribable euphoria.
  • indescribably — not describable; too extraordinary for description: a scene of indescribable confusion; indescribable euphoria.
  • indeterminism — the doctrine that human actions, though influenced somewhat by preexisting psychological and other conditions, are not entirely governed by them but retain a certain freedom and spontaneity.
  • index futures — a form of financial futures based on projected movement of a share price index, such as the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Share Index
  • indian desert — Thar Desert.
  • indian summer — a period of mild, dry weather, usually accompanied by a hazy atmosphere, occurring usually in late October or early November and following a period of colder weather.
  • indifferences — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
  • indirect cost — a business cost that is not directly accountable to a particular function or product; a fixed cost, as a land tax or the like.
  • indiscernible — not discernible; that cannot be seen or perceived clearly; imperceptible.
  • indiscernibly — In a way that cannot be discerned.
  • indiscerpible — (obsolete) Not discerpible; inseparable.
  • indiscretions — Plural form of indiscretion.
  • indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
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