13-letter words containing s, u, c, e, d
- difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
- disaccustomed — Simple past tense and past participle of disaccustom.
- disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
- disceptatious — disputable
- discomycetous — of or relating to the subclass of fungus Discomycetes
- discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
- discounselled — lacking support or counsel
- discount rate — the rate of interest charged in discounting commercial paper.
- discourtesies — Plural form of discourtesy.
- disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
- disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
- disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- do justice to — to show to full advantage
- document case — a flat, portable case, often of leather, for carrying papers, documents etc.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
- double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
- douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
- dressy casual — (of clothes) informal yet expensive, smart, or stylish
- duff's device — The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm. Trying to bum all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then realised that the unrolled version could be implemented by *interlacing* the structures of a switch and a loop: register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */ switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *to = *from++; case 7: *to = *from++; case 6: *to = *from++; case 5: *to = *from++; case 4: *to = *from++; case 3: *to = *from++; case 2: *to = *from++; case 1: *to = *from++; } while (--n > 0); } Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default fall through in case statements has long been its most controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
- dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
- 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
- eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
- educationists — Plural form of educationist.
- endonucleases — Plural form of endonuclease.
- eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
- excise duties — the tax payable on certain goods, such as alcohol, cigarettes, fuel
- fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
- foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
- 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.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- 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.
- gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
- hexadactylous — hexadactylic
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- indiscussible — unsuitable for or not subject or open to discussion; not negotiable.
- indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
- judicial sale — a forced sale of property authorized or required by a court of law in order to satisfy a debt etc
- judiciousness — The state of being judicious.
- juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
- jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.