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