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13-letter words containing a, n, d, r, o

  • down the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
  • down to earth — practical and realistic: a down-to-earth person.
  • down-to-earth — practical and realistic: a down-to-earth person.
  • downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
  • draft version — a preliminary version
  • draftspersons — Plural form of draftsperson.
  • drag and drop — A common method for manipulating files (and sometimes text) under a graphical user interface or WIMP environment. The user moves the pointer over an icon representing a file and presses a mouse button. He holds the button down while moving the pointer (dragging the file) to another place, usually a directory viewer or an icon for some application program, and then releases the button (dropping the file). The meaning of this action can often be modified by holding certain keys on the keyboard at the same time. Some systems also use this technique for objects other than files, e.g. portions of text in a word processor. The biggest problem with drag and drop is does it mean "copy" or "move"? The answer to this question is not intuitively evident, and there is no consensus for which is the right answer. The same vendor even makes it move in some cases and copy in others. Not being sure whether an operation is copy or move will cause you to check very often, perhaps every time if you need to be certain. Mistakes can be costly. People make mistakes all the time with drag and drop. Human computer interaction studies show a higher failure rate for such operations, but also a higher "forgiveness rate" (users think "silly me") than failures with commands (users think "stupid machine"). Overall, drag and drop took some 40 times longer to do than single-key commands.
  • dragon lizard — Komodo dragon.
  • dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
  • dragon's head — any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
  • dragon's tail — (formerly) the descending node of the moon or a planet.
  • dramatisation — Alternative spelling of dramatization.
  • dramatization — the act of dramatizing.
  • drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
  • draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
  • drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
  • drink to that — People say 'I'll drink to that' to show that they agree with and approve of something that someone has just said.
  • 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.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
  • dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
  • dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
  • dysrationalia — The inability to think and behave rationally despite adequate intelligence.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • earned income — income from wages, salaries, fees, or the like, accruing from labor or services performed by the earner.
  • easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • edmund andros — Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • edward lorenz — (person)   A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.
  • enantiodromia — (psychiatry, according to Carl Jung) The principle whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium.
  • enantiodromic — relating to enantiodromia
  • enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
  • endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
  • endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
  • endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
  • endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
  • equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
  • equiponderate — To counterbalance.
  • eta reduction — eta conversion
  • european toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans, the male of which carries the fertilized eggs on its hind legs until they hatch: family Discoglossidae
  • ever and anon — now and then
  • exotic dancer — a striptease dancer or belly dancer
  • expeditionary — Of or forming an expedition, especially a military expedition.
  • extraordinary — Very unusual or remarkable.
  • fanfold paper — continuous paper perforated at regular intervals, as used in a dot-matrix printer
  • faroe islands — islands in Atlantic Ocean
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