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13-letter words containing end

  • extended care — nursing care provided for a limited time after a hospital stay, as in a special facility
  • extended tiny — A research/educational tool for experimenting with array data dependence tests and reordering transformations. It works with a language tiny, which does not have procedures, goto's, pointers, or other features that complicate dependence testing. Michael Wolfe's original tiny has been extended substantially by William Pugh <[email protected]> et al. at the University of Maryland. Version 3.0 (Dec 12th, 1992) includes a programming environment, dependence tester, tests translator (Fortran->tiny), documentation, and technical reports. It should run on any Unix system. E-mail: Omega test research group <[email protected]>.
  • extended-play — denoting an EP record
  • family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
  • fence-mending — the practice of reestablishing or strengthening personal, business, or political contacts and relationships by conciliation or negotiation, as after a dispute, disagreement, or period of inactivity.
  • fender bender — a collision between motor vehicles in which there is only minor damage.
  • fender-bender — a collision between motor vehicles in which there is only minor damage.
  • filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
  • free-spending — spending or tending to spend freely: If you don't mend your free-spending ways, you'll go bankrupt.
  • french endive — endive (def 2).
  • friendly fire — Insurance. a fire deliberately set and remaining contained, as in a fireplace or boiler, from which any resulting loss cannot be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to hostile fire).
  • friendsgiving — a gathering of friends to celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast, falling near or on Thanksgiving Day, in contrast to the traditional celebrations that typically involve family.
  • gender bender — Informal. one, as a cross-dresser, that blurs differences between the sexes.
  • gender binary — a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female.
  • gender mender — (hardware)   (Or "gender bender", "gender blender", "sex changer", and even "homosexual adaptor") A cable connector shell with either two male or two female connectors on it, used to correct the mismatches that result when some loser didn't understand the EIA-232C specification and the distinction between DTE and DCE. Used especially for EIA-232C parts in either the original D-25 or the IBM PC's D-9 connector. There appears to be some confusion as to whether a "male homosexual adaptor" has pins on both sides (is doubly male) or sockets on both sides (connects two males).
  • gender-bender — Informal. one, as a cross-dresser, that blurs differences between the sexes.
  • gregor mendel — Gregor Johann [greg-er yoh-hahn;; German grey-gawr yoh-hahn] /ˈgrɛg ər ˈyoʊ hɑn;; German ˈgreɪ gɔr ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1822–84, Austrian monk and botanist.
  • heart-rending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
  • hendecahedron — a solid figure having 11 faces.
  • hidden agenda — an often duplicitously undisclosed plan or motive.
  • high-spending — spending more than is necessary or appropriate
  • hyperextended — Extremely long; extended greatly.
  • in attendance — If someone is in attendance at a place or an event, they are there.
  • independantly — Misspelling of independently.
  • independently — not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself: an independent thinker.
  • interdepended — Simple past tense and past participle of interdepend.
  • invendibility — the state or quality of being invendible or unsaleable
  • john endicott — John, Endecott, John.
  • junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
  • lavender-blue — coloured between blue and pale or light bluish-purple to a very pale violet colour
  • lending limit — the maximum amount of money a bank can lend to a single person or business
  • little-endian — (data, architecture)   A computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or 32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is stored "little-end-first"). The PDP-11 and VAX families of computers and Intel microprocessors and a lot of communications and networking hardware are little-endian. The term is sometimes used to describe the ordering of units other than bytes; most often, bits within a byte. Compare big-endian, middle-endian. See NUXI problem.
  • market trends — changes and developments in buying and selling in the market
  • mend o's ways — If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.
  • mendel's laws — law of segregation.
  • mendes-france — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1907–1982, French statesman and economist: premier 1954–55.
  • middle-endian — (data, architecture)   Neither big-endian nor little-endian. Used of perverse byte orders such as 3-4-1-2 or 2-1-4-3, occasionally found in the packed decimal formats of some minicomputer manufacturers. See -endian.
  • misapprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend.
  • miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
  • mock pendulum — a false pendulum bob attached to the balances of certain timepieces and visible through a slot in the dial or case.
  • modus vivendi — manner of living; way of life; lifestyle.
  • most reverend — title of high-ranking church minister
  • non-amendable — to alter, modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from (a motion, bill, constitution, etc.) by formal procedure: Congress may amend the proposed tax bill.
  • nonattendance — failure to attend: Members of the society can be dropped for chronic nonattendance.
  • nonexpendable — capable of being expended.
  • odds and ends — miscellaneous items, matters, etc.
  • old pretender — a member of the royal family that ruled in Scotland from 1371 to 1714 and in England from 1603 to 1714.
  • openendedness — not having fixed limits; unrestricted; broad: an open-ended discussion.
  • overdependent — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
  • passchendaele — a village in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: the scene of heavy fighting during the third battle of Ypres in World War I during which 245 000 British troops were lost
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