13-letter words containing a, c, d, e, m
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
- france modern — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
- freedom march — an organized march protesting a government's restriction of or lack of support for civil rights, especially such a march in support of racial integration in the U.S. in the 1960s.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
- homestead act — a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
- homoscedastic — having the same variance.
- humped cattle — any of several breeds of domestic cattle developed from the Indian species Bos indicus and characterized by a hump of fat and muscle over the shoulders.
- ideogrammatic — Of or pertaining to ideograms.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- idiomaticness — Idiomaticity.
- impredicative — (of a definition) given in terms that require quantification over a range that includes that which is to be defined, as having all the properties of a great general where one of the properties as ascribed must be that property itself
- impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
- incidentaloma — an abnormal lesion or tumor detected by chance during a medical imaging test, physical examination, or surgery.
- indeterminacy — the condition or quality of being indeterminate; indetermination.
- indo-germanic — Indo-European
- interpandemic — occurring between two pandemics
- 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.
- lacedaemonian — of or relating to ancient Sparta; Spartan.
- lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
- lucid dreamer — a person who has lucid dreams, either naturally or as a result of training
- machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
- madeira sauce — a savoury sauce made with Madeira wine and served with meat
- magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- magnetic head — head (def 33).
- magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
- maiden castle — an ancient fortification in Dorsetshire, England, first erected c250 b.c. over the remains of Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements of c2000–c1500 b.c.
- maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
- major medical — insurance designed to compensate for particularly large medical expenses due to a severe or prolonged illness, usually by paying a high percentage of medical bills above a certain amount.
- 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
- marmalade cat — a cat that is streaked orange or yellow and brown in colour
- mastoidectomy — the removal of part of a mastoid process, usually for draining an infection.
- matched order — an order placed with a broker to buy a specified stock at a price above the market price with the intention of immediately selling the stock through another broker at the same price. It is designed to give the appearance of active trading in the stock.
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- mean distance — the arithmetic mean of the greatest and least distances of a planet from the sun, used in stating the size of an orbit; the semimajor axis.
- meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
- medical audit — a review of the professional standards of doctors, usually within a hospital, conducted by a medical committee
- medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- medicine ball — a large, solid, heavy, leather-covered ball, thrown from one person to another for exercise.
- medium octavo — a size of book, about 6 × 9½ inches (15 × 24 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 8vo.
- melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.