13-letter words containing a, s, p, o
- crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
- cryotherapies — Plural form of cryotherapy.
- cryptoanalyst — Alternative form of cryptanalyst.
- cryptoclastic — (of minerals and rocks) composed of microscopic fragments
- cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
- cushion plant — a type of low-growing plant having many closely spaced short upright shoots, typical of alpine and arctic habitats
- custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
- cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
- daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
- decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.
- 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.
- deep-sea core — an intact sample of sediment extracted from the ocean floor by drilling with a long hollow tube.
- dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
- depersonalise — Alternative spelling of depersonalize.
- depersonalize — To depersonalize a system or a situation means to treat it as if it did not really involve people, or to treat it as if the people involved were not really important.
- depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
- dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
- dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
- dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
- diazo process — a method for printing on paper treated with a diazo compound that disintegrates upon exposure to light and developing the unexposed areas by the use of diazo dyes.
- dictatorships — Plural form of dictatorship.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- dilapidations — Plural form of dilapidation.
- diplobacillus — a double bacillus; two bacilli linked end to end.
- dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
- disappointing — failing to fulfill one's hopes or expectations: a disappointing movie; a disappointing marriage.
- disceptatious — disputable
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- 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.
- dispensations — Plural form of dispensation.
- displantation — the removal of a plantation
- 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.
- disreputation — disrepute.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- doppelgangers — Plural form of doppelganger.
- doppler laser — a technique for measuring the shift in frequency between the source and reflected radiation of a laser.
- double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- draftspersons — Plural form of draftsperson.
- 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.
- 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.