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13-letter words containing a, d, s

  • dar es salaam — the chief port of Tanzania, on the Indian Ocean: capital of German East Africa (1891–1916); capital of Tanzania until 1983 when it was officially replaced by Dodoma, though still retaining some functions; university (1963). Pop: 2 683 000 (2005 est)
  • dare i say it — You use 'dare I say it' when you know that what you are going to say will disappoint or annoy someone.
  • darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
  • das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
  • dasht-i-kavir — a salt waste on the central plateau of Iran: a treacherous marsh beneath a salt crust
  • dastardliness — The state or quality of being dastardly.
  • data security — the protection of data stored on computers
  • data striping — (storage)   Segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be written to multiple physical devices (usually disk drives) in a round-robin fashion. This technique is useful if the processor is capable of reading or writing data faster than a single disk can supply or accept it. While data is being transferred from the first disk, the second disk can locate the next segment. Data striping is used in some modern databases, such as Sybase, and in certain RAID devices under hardware control, such as IBM's RAMAC array subsystem (9304/9395). Data striping is different from, and may be used in conjunction with, mirroring.
  • data transfer — (data)   Copying or moving data from one place to another, typically via some kind of network (e.g. Asynchronous Transfer Mode, File Transfer Protocol) or local data connection (bus, SCSI, IDE, SATA).
  • dauntlessness — The characteristic of being dauntless; fearlessness.
  • day blindness — hemeralopia.
  • days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
  • de-stigmatize — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
  • deaccessioned — Simple past tense and past participle of deaccession.
  • death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
  • death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
  • deathlessness — The state of being deathless; eternity.
  • debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
  • decahistidine — An oligopeptide consisting of ten histidine moieties.
  • decapitalised — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
  • decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.
  • decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
  • decasyllables — Plural form of decasyllable.
  • decentralised — Simple past tense and past participle of decentralise.
  • decentralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decentralize.
  • decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
  • declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
  • decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
  • decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
  • decongestants — Plural form of decongestant.
  • deconsecrated — (of a church) having been transferred to secular use
  • deconsecrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconsecrate.
  • decriminalise — Alternative spelling of decriminalize.
  • deemphasizing — Present participle of deemphasize.
  • deep-sea core — an intact sample of sediment extracted from the ocean floor by drilling with a long hollow tube.
  • defamiliarise — Alternative spelling of defamiliarize.
  • defeasibility — capable of being annulled or terminated.
  • defenestrated — Simple past tense and past participle of defenestrate.
  • defenestrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defenestrate.
  • defloration's — the act of deflowering.
  • deforestation — to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.
  • dehydrogenase — an enzyme, such as any of the respiratory enzymes, that activates oxidation-reduction reactions by transferring hydrogen from substrate to acceptor
  • deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
  • delicatessens — Plural form of delicatessen.
  • delimitations — Plural form of delimitation.
  • demandingness — the quality of being demanding
  • demasculinise — Alternative spelling of demasculinize.
  • demasculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
  • dematerialise — Alternative spelling of dematerialize.
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