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

  • diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
  • diamond snake — a python, Morelia argus, of Australia and New Guinea, with yellow diamond-shaped markings
  • diamond state — Delaware (used as a nickname).
  • diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
  • dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
  • dilettanteism — The condition of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
  • dim statement — (programming)   (From "dimension") A keyword in most versions of the BASIC programming language that declares the size of an array. E.g. DIM A(100) declares a one-dimensional array with 101 numeric elements (including A(0)). Dim DepartmentNumber As Integer which declares a single (scalar) variable of type Integer.
  • dimensionally — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
  • 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
  • disaccustomed — Simple past tense and past participle of disaccustom.
  • disaffirmance — to deny; contradict.
  • disagreements — Plural form of disagreement.
  • disambiguated — Simple past tense and past participle of disambiguate.
  • disambiguates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disambiguate.
  • 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.
  • discriminated — Simple past tense and past participle of discriminate.
  • discriminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discriminate.
  • disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
  • disengagement — the act or process of disengaging or the state of being disengaged.
  • disentailment — The action of freeing property from entail.
  • disestimation — the act of having esteem removed
  • disharmonized — Simple past tense and past participle of disharmonize.
  • disilluminate — to darken
  • dismantlement — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
  • disparagement — the act of disparaging.
  • displacements — Plural form of displacement.
  • disseminating — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
  • dissemination — the act of disseminating, or spreading widely: The Internet allows for the rapid dissemination of information.
  • disseminative — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
  • disseminators — Plural form of disseminator.
  • dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
  • 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.
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • 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.
  • drama student — a student who is training to become an actor
  • dreamcatchers — Plural form of dreamcatcher.
  • dreamlessness — The state or condition of being dreamless; lack of dreams.
  • 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.
  • 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
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