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13-letter words containing c, d

  • domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • domical vault — cloistered vault.
  • domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
  • domiciliating — Present participle of domiciliate.
  • domiciliation — to domicile.
  • domino effect — the cumulative effect that results when one event precipitates a series of like events.
  • donald cherry — Donald Eugene ("Don") 1936–95, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
  • donkey jacket — A donkey jacket is a thick, warm jacket, usually dark blue with a strip across the shoulders at the back.
  • donor country — a country which provides aid to a developing country
  • doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
  • double bounce — (of the ball in tennis, table tennis, etc) two bounces on the same side of the net before a return
  • double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
  • double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
  • double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
  • double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • double-decker — something with two decks, tiers, or the like, as two beds one above the other, a ship with two decks above the water line, or a bus with two decks.
  • double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
  • downconverter — A device that converts a signal to a lower frequency, especially in television reception.
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • dramatic arts — the art of the writing and production of plays; drama
  • dramaturgical — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
  • dreamcatchers — Plural form of dreamcatcher.
  • dresden china — porcelain ware produced at Meissen, Germany, near Dresden, after 1710.
  • dressing case — a small piece of luggage for carrying toilet articles, medicine, etc.
  • dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
  • dressy casual — (of clothes) informal yet expensive, smart, or stylish
  • drilling crew — The drilling crew are the people who operate a drilling rig.
  • driving chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
  • driving force — impetus
  • drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
  • dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
  • dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
  • dual alliance — the alliance between France and Russia (1890), strengthened by a military convention (1892–93) and lasting until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
  • 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.
  • dual-attached — The form of FDDI interface where a device is connected to both FDDI token-passing rings, so that uninterrupted operation continues in the event of a failure of either of the rings. All connections to the main FDDI rings are dual-attached. Typically, a small number of critical infrastructure devices such as routers and concentrators are dual-attached, whereas host computers are normally single-attached or dual-homed to a router or concentrator. For example, a ring could be formed between a single router and two concentrators (all dual-attached) then all other components that need to be fault-tolerant (typically file servers) can be dual-homed to both concentrators.
  • dualistically — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
  • duc d'enghien — Duc [dyk] /dük/ (Show IPA), (Louis Antoine Henry de Bourbon-Condé) 1772–1804, French prince: executed by Napoleon I.
  • duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
  • duck-egg blue — a pale greenish-blue colour
  • ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
  • due diligence — the degree of care that is to be reasonably expected or that is legally required, esp. of persons giving professional advice
  • due-diligence — reasonable care and caution exercised by a person who is buying, selling, giving professional advice, etc., especially as required by law to protect against incurring liability: The court said there was due diligence on the part of the plaintiff.
  • duff's device — The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm. Trying to bum all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then realised that the unrolled version could be implemented by *interlacing* the structures of a switch and a loop: register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */ switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *to = *from++; case 7: *to = *from++; case 6: *to = *from++; case 5: *to = *from++; case 4: *to = *from++; case 3: *to = *from++; case 2: *to = *from++; case 1: *to = *from++; } while (--n > 0); } Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default fall through in case statements has long been its most controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
  • duplicability — The quality of being duplicable.
  • duplicitously — In a duplicitous, two-faced manner.
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