13-letter words containing act
- best practice — Best practice is the way of running a business or providing a service that is recognized as correct or most effective.
- biotic factor — a living thing, as an animal or plant, that influences or affects an ecosystem: How do humans affect other biotic factors? Weather is not a biotic factor because it is not alive.
- brachydactyly — abnormal shortness of the fingers and toes.
- cactus dahlia — a double-flowered variety of dahlia
- campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
- caster action — the tendency, caused by the design of the mounting, of a wheel to turn into its plane of rotation
- chain reactor — reactor (def 4).
- character key — key
- character set — a set of characters to display on a computer screen or be printed out that are all of the same design
- characterised — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
- characterises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of characterise.
- characterized — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
- characterizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of characterize.
- characterless — If you describe something as characterless, you mean that it is dull and uninteresting.
- chiropractics — The practice of a chiropractor.
- chiropractors — Plural form of chiropractor.
- climactically — In a climactic fashion; like, or as, a climax.
- cocontraction — The simultaneous contraction of two muscles.
- common factor — a number or quantity that is a factor of each member of a group of numbers or quantities
- compact cobol — (language) A subset of COBOL defined, but not published, ca. 1961.
- compactedness — the state of being compacted
- companies act — (in Britain) any of various laws that govern the formation, dissolution, and management of companies
- contact paper — Photography. sensitized paper on which a contact print is made.
- contact patch — the area of contact between a tire on an automotive vehicle and the road surface.
- contact print — a photographic print made by exposing the printing paper through a negative placed directly onto it
- contact sheet — a contact print, usually of all frames of a developed roll of negative print film, used as a proof print.
- contact sport — a sport that involves physical contact between participants, such as rugby
- contract bond — an indemnity agreement to protect against loss due to breach of contract.
- contract work — the work specified in a short-term contract, esp as opposed to regular employment
- contractility — capable of contracting or causing contraction.
- contractional — of, relating to, or produced by contraction
- contractually — of, relating to, or secured by a contract.
- contrafactive — Denoting a verb that assigns to its object (normally a clausal object) the status of not being true, e.g., pretend and wish.
- contrafactual — counterfactual.
- counteractant — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
- counteracting — Present participle of counteract.
- counteraction — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
- counteractive — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
- countertactic — an opposing tactic
- covert action — a secret action undertaken to influence the course of political events, as a government intelligence operation.
- cyanobacteria — a group of photosynthetic bacteria (phylum Cyanobacteria) containing a blue photosynthetic pigment
- cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
- dactyliomancy — the use of a suspended finger-ring for divination
- dactylography — the scientific study of fingerprints for purposes of identification
- dactylomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the fingers or toes.
- dactylozooids — Plural form of dactylozooid.
- dairy factory — a factory making butter, cheese, lactose, etc from milk collected from surrounding farming areas
- dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
- demanufacture — A process of recycling that involves the dismantling and/or disassembly of an item to gain the maximum amount of recyclable materials.
- diffractogram — An image produced by a diffractometer.