13-letter words containing a, c, d
- domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- domiciliating — Present participle of domiciliate.
- domiciliation — to domicile.
- donald cherry — Donald Eugene ("Don") 1936–95, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
- donkey jacket — A donkey jacket is a thick, warm jacket, usually dark blue with a strip across the shoulders at the back.
- doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
- double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
- douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- dramatic arts — the art of the writing and production of plays; drama
- dramaturgical — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- dreamcatchers — Plural form of dreamcatcher.
- dresden china — porcelain ware produced at Meissen, Germany, near Dresden, after 1710.
- dressing case — a small piece of luggage for carrying toilet articles, medicine, etc.
- dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
- dressy casual — (of clothes) informal yet expensive, smart, or stylish
- driving chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
- dual alliance — the alliance between France and Russia (1890), strengthened by a military convention (1892–93) and lasting until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
- dual controls — If a vehicle used by a driving instructor has dual controls, it has pedals on the passenger's side as well as on the driver's side to allow the driving instructor to brake should the learner try to move off when it is dangerous to do so
- dual monarchy — the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.
- dual-attached — The form of FDDI interface where a device is connected to both FDDI token-passing rings, so that uninterrupted operation continues in the event of a failure of either of the rings. All connections to the main FDDI rings are dual-attached. Typically, a small number of critical infrastructure devices such as routers and concentrators are dual-attached, whereas host computers are normally single-attached or dual-homed to a router or concentrator. For example, a ring could be formed between a single router and two concentrators (all dual-attached) then all other components that need to be fault-tolerant (typically file servers) can be dual-homed to both concentrators.
- dualistically — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- duplicability — The quality of being duplicable.
- dutch auction — a method of auction consisting in the offer of a property at a price above the actual value and then at gradually reduced prices until a buyer is found.
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
- dynamic range — the range of signal amplitudes over which an electronic communications channel can operate within acceptable limits of distortion. The range is determined by system noise at the lower end and by the onset of overload at the upper end
- dynamic scope — (language) In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
- dyothelitical — relating to dyotheletism
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- dzibilchaltun — a large, ancient Mayan ceremonial and commercial center near Mérida, Mexico, founded perhaps as early as 3000 b.c. and in continuous use until the 16th century.
- earned income — income from wages, salaries, fees, or the like, accruing from labor or services performed by the earner.
- easter candle — a tall candle, symbolizing Christ, that is sometimes blessed and placed on the gospel side of an altar on Holy Saturday and kept burning until Ascension Day.
- edam (cheese) — a mild, yellow cheese, made in a round mold and usually having a coating of red paraffin
- educationally — pertaining to education.
- educationists — Plural form of educationist.
- electrodermal — Of or relating to measurement of the electrical conductivity of the skin, especially as an indicator of someone’s emotional responses.
- electroplated — Simple past tense and past participle of electroplate.
- enantiodromic — relating to enantiodromia
- enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
- encyclopaedia — (chiefly, UK, Australia) alternative spelling of encyclopedia.
- encyclopaedic — Alternative spelling of encyclopedic.
- encyclopedian — including a wide circle of learning
- encyclopedias — Plural form of encyclopedia.
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- endocommensal — a commensal living within the body of the host organism
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.