13-letter words containing a, d, m, i, l
- dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
- direct-mailer — a person or firm engaged in direct-mail advertising.
- dirty old man — a mature or elderly man with lewd or obscene preoccupations.
- dirty realism — a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
- disassembling — Present participle of disassemble.
- disassimilate — to break down (a complex molecule or substance) into simple ones through catabolism
- discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
- discriminably — So as to be discriminable; distinguishably.
- disentailment — The action of freeing property from entail.
- disilluminate — to darken
- dismantlement — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- dissimilarity — unlikeness; difference.
- dissimilating — Present participle of dissimilate.
- dissimilation — the act of making or becoming unlike.
- dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
- dissimilatory — to modify by dissimilation.
- dissimulating — Present participle of dissimulate.
- dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- domain handle — (networking) Information held by a domain name registrar about a registrant (the person or organisation that owns the name). Typically the registrar stores one copy of this information and refers to that copy for each additional domain registered by the same person. The information would include basic contact details: name, e-mail address, etc. and billing information. Some of this information would be used to populate the whois database entry for a domain.
- domical vault — cloistered vault.
- domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- domiciliating — Present participle of domiciliate.
- domiciliation — to domicile.
- dramaturgical — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- drilling mast — A drilling mast is a structure over an oil well which supports the drilling equipment and allows it to be lifted into and out of the wellbore.
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- dyslipidaemia — Alternative spelling of dyslipidemia.
- emotionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of emotionalize.
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
- false diamond — any of a number of semiprecious stones that resemble diamond, such as zircon and white topaz
- family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
- family doctor — a general practitioner.
- family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
- family-minded — devoted to one's family
- fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
- field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
- flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
- fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
- formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- fulminic acid — an unstable acid, CNOH, isomeric with cyanic acid, and known only in the form of its salts.
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- 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;
- goldtail moth — European moth with white wings and a soft white furry body with a yellow tail tuft