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13-letter words containing id

  • freedom rider — (especially in the 1960s) a bus trip made to parts of the southern U.S. by persons engaging in efforts to integrate racially segregated public facilities.
  • fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
  • fulminic acid — an unstable acid, CNOH, isomeric with cyanic acid, and known only in the form of its salts.
  • gaidhealtachd — the area of Scotland in which Scottish Gaelic is the vernacular speech
  • galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
  • genital ridge — the area in the vertebrate embryo that develops into ovaries in the female and testes in the male.
  • gentisic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble compound, C 7 H 6 O 4 , used chiefly in the form of its sodium salt as an analgesic and diaphoretic.
  • get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
  • give evidence — testify in a court of law
  • glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
  • gliding joint — arthrodia.
  • gliding lemur — flying lemur.
  • glucaric acid — saccharic acid.
  • gluconic acid — a colorless, water-soluble acid, C 6 H 12 O 7 , obtained by the oxidation of glucose, used commercially in a 50-percent solution for cleaning metals.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • glutamic acid — an amino acid, HOOCCH 2 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, obtained by hydrolysis from wheat gluten and sugar-beet residues, used commercially chiefly in the form of its sodium salt to intensify the flavor of meat or other food. Symbol: E. Abbreviation: Glu;
  • glyceric acid — a colorless, syrupy liquid, C 3 H 6 O 4 , obtained by oxidizing glycerol.
  • glycolic acid — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 2 H 4 O 3 , that is a major substrate for photorespiration in plants: used chiefly for textile printing and dyeing and in pesticides.
  • glyconic acid — gluconic acid.
  • glycopeptides — Plural form of glycopeptide.
  • gold chloride — a yellow to red, water-soluble compound, AuCl 3 , used chiefly in photography, gilding ceramic ware and glass, and in the manufacture of purple of Cassius.
  • good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
  • grants-in-aid — a subsidy furnished by a central government to a local one to help finance a public project, as the construction of a highway or school.
  • grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
  • grylloblattid — a primitive insect of the order Grylloblattidea, having a soft, unpigmented wingless body with long antennae and no eyes, living under stones in moderately high mountains of the western U.S., Japan, and the U.S.S.R.
  • guanylic acid — GMP.
  • gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
  • heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
  • helicoid cyme — an inflorescence, or cyme, in which each flowering branch gives rise to one lateral branch that is coiled snail-like and then expanded.
  • hemiterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C5 skeleton.
  • heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
  • hexactinellid — a type of sponge characterized by their (usually) six siliceous spicules or rays
  • hexanoic acid — caproic acid.
  • hidden agenda — an often duplicitously undisclosed plan or motive.
  • hide and seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
  • hide-and-seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
  • high fidelity — sound reproduction over the full range of audible frequencies with very little distortion of the original signal.
  • high holidays — either of two holy days of special significance, Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur.
  • hippuric acid — a crystalline solid excreted in the urine of mammals. Formula: C9H9NO3
  • histiophoroid — of or relating to the sailfish
  • hit the skids — get into difficulties
  • holiday-maker — vacationer.
  • holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
  • hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
  • hybrid system — a way of working, organizing, or doing something that is composed of elements of two separate systems
  • hybrid vigour — the increased size, strength, etc, of a hybrid as compared to either of its parents
  • hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
  • hybridization — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
  • hydrochloride — a salt, especially of an alkaloid, formed by the direct union of hydrochloric acid with an organic base that makes the organic constituent more soluble.
  • hydrocolloids — Plural form of hydrocolloid.
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