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13-letter words containing a, p, i

  • discographies — Plural form of discography.
  • discrepancies — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
  • disk capacity — the maximum number of bytes that can be held on a disk
  • disparagement — the act of disparaging.
  • disparagingly — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
  • disparateness — The degree to which a thing is disparate.
  • dispassionate — free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
  • dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
  • dispatch case — attaché case.
  • dispensations — Plural form of dispensation.
  • displacements — Plural form of displacement.
  • displantation — the removal of a plantation
  • display panel — an electronic screen on which information can be displayed
  • disposability — designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up: disposable plastic spoons; a disposable cigarette lighter.
  • dispositional — the predominant or prevailing tendency of one's spirits; natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristic attitude: a girl with a pleasant disposition.
  • dispraisingly — By way of dispraise.
  • dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
  • disreputation — disrepute.
  • dna computing — (architecture)   The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • dolichocephal — a person with a head much longer than it is broad
  • dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
  • draftsmanship — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, as of machines, structures, etc.
  • drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
  • drawing paper — artist's paper for drawing and sketching
  • drip painting — a technique of abstract painting exemplified chiefly in the later works of Jackson Pollack and marked by the intricately executed dripping and pouring of the paint on a canvas placed on the floor.
  • drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
  • dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • duplicability — The quality of being duplicable.
  • durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
  • 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.
  • dyslipidaemia — Alternative spelling of dyslipidemia.
  • ear-splitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
  • earl palatine — count palatine (def 2).
  • earning power — business: ability to profit
  • east pakistan — former name of Bangladesh.
  • east prussian — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • ectoparasites — Plural form of ectoparasite.
  • ectoparasitic — Of or pertaining to ectoparasites.
  • egyptological — Alternative form of Egyptological.
  • elephant fish — a large marine fish, Callorhinchus milii, of southwest Pacific waters, having a snout resembling an elephant's trunk
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • elephantiasis — A condition in which a limb or other part of the body becomes grossly enlarged due to obstruction of the lymphatic vessels, typically by the nematode parasites that cause filariasis.
  • emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.
  • empiricalness — Quality of being empirical.
  • employability — (uncountable) The state or quality of being employable.
  • empyreumatise — to render empyreumatic
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