13-letter words containing u, c, o, d, e
- dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
- double bounce — (of the ball in tennis, table tennis, etc) two bounces on the same side of the net before a return
- double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
- double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
- double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
- double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
- double-decker — something with two decks, tiers, or the like, as two beds one above the other, a ship with two decks above the water line, or a bus with two decks.
- double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- 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
- educationally — pertaining to education.
- educationists — Plural form of educationist.
- endonucleases — Plural form of endonuclease.
- eta reduction — eta conversion
- eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
- 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
- federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
- 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.
- forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
- ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
- 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 tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
- here document — (operating system) Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
- hexadactylous — hexadactylic
- high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
- 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.
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
- hyperproducer — an increased or rapid producer
- hypoeutectoid — (of steel) having less carbon than the 0.8 percent of eutectoid steel.
- 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.
- inconcludable — Impossible to conclude; unfinishable.
- incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- 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.
- judiciousness — The state of being judicious.
- juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.