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13-letter words containing a, d, e, s

  • diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
  • do one's nana — to become very angry
  • document case — a flat, portable case, often of leather, for carrying papers, documents etc.
  • documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
  • documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
  • documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • dodecahedrons — Plural form of dodecahedron.
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • dog's disease — influenza.
  • dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
  • dolman sleeve — a sleeve tapered from a very large armhole to fit closely at the wrist, used on women's garments.
  • dome fastener — a fastening device consisting of one part with a projecting knob that snaps into a hole on another like part, used esp in closures in clothing
  • domesday book — a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
  • domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
  • domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
  • donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • doppelgangers — Plural form of doppelganger.
  • doppler laser — a technique for measuring the shift in frequency between the source and reflected radiation of a laser.
  • double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
  • downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
  • draft version — a preliminary version
  • draftspersons — Plural form of draftsperson.
  • dragon's head — any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
  • drake passage — a strait between S South America and the South Shetland Islands, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
  • drama student — a student who is training to become an actor
  • draw the shot — to deliver the bowl in such a way that it approaches the jack
  • dreadlessness — the state or quality of being without fear or dread
  • dreamcatchers — Plural form of dreamcatcher.
  • dreamlessness — The state or condition of being dreamless; lack of dreams.
  • 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
  • drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
  • driver's seat — the seat from which a vehicle is operated.
  • dromaeosaurid — A carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of a late Cretaceous family that included deinonychus and the velociraptors. They had a large slashing claw on each hind foot.
  • dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
  • durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • durable press — permanent press.
  • 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
  • dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
  • 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.
  • dynamogenesis — the output of raised activity of the nervous system
  • dyslipidaemia — Alternative spelling of dyslipidemia.
  • dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
  • dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
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