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13-letter words containing u, n, d, e, c

  • 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.
  • 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
  • fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
  • 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.
  • h and d curve — characteristic curve.
  • hard currency — money that is backed by gold reserves and is readily convertible into foreign currencies.
  • here document — (operating system)   Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
  • horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
  • hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
  • hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
  • 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.
  • inarticulated — Not articulated; not connected by a joint.
  • inconcludable — Impossible to conclude; unfinishable.
  • 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.
  • indiscussible — unsuitable for or not subject or open to discussion; not negotiable.
  • 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.
  • ineducability — Inability to be educated.
  • 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.
  • judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
  • judiciousness — The state of being judicious.
  • juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
  • jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
  • knuckle under — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
  • knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
  • knuckleheaded — Stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.
  • language code — (human language, standard)   A set of standard names and abbreviations maintained by ISO for identifying human languages, natural and invented, past and present. Each language has a list of English and French names and an ISO 639-2 three-letter code. Some also have an ISO 639-1 two-letter code. The list even includes the Klingon language from the Star Trek science fiction series. There are also country codes.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
  • machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
  • magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • malleoincudal — Of or relating to both the malleus and the incus.
  • many-coloured — having many colours
  • medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
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