12-letter words containing c, h, a, d
- dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
- decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- depth charge — A depth charge is a type of bomb which explodes under water and which is used especially to destroy enemy submarines.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- detachedness — the quality of being detached or separated
- detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
- deux chevaux — a very small, inexpensive automobile
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- dibranchiate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dibranchiata, a group or former order of cephalopod molluscs, including the octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, having two gills
- dichotically — in a dichotic manner
- dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- diencephalic — Of or pertaining to the diencephalon.
- diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
- ding an sich — thing-in-itself.
- dining chair — high-backed chair used at dinner table
- disaccharide — any of a group of carbohydrates, as sucrose or lactose, that yield monosaccharides on hydrolysis.
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- discographic — of or relating to a discography
- disenchanted — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disenchanter — One who disenchants.
- disfranchise — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
- dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- display hack — (graphics) A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix "rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym psychedelicware.
- ditheistical — of or relating to ditheism, ditheistic
- ditheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
- dodecahedral — Having twelve plane surfaces.
- dodecahedron — a solid figure having 12 faces.
- dodecaphonic — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
- doomwatching — the act of watching the environment to warn of and prevent harm
- drama school — a college which trains students (who are generally 18+) to act
- dreamcatcher — A small hoop containing a horsehair mesh, or a similar construction of string or yarn, decorated with feathers and beads, believed to give its owner good dreams. Dreamcatchers were originally made by American Indians.
- drift anchor — a sea anchor or drag.
- drum machine — a device that simulates percussion sounds in various combinations and rhythms, and can alter digitally stored drum sounds or make digital recordings of drum sounds.
- duncan phyfe — of, relating to, or resembling the furniture made by Duncan Phyfe, especially the earlier pieces in the Sheraton and Directoire styles.
- duncan smith — (George) Iain. born 1954, British politician; leader of the Conservative Party (2001–03); secretary of state for work and pensions (2010–2016)
- duplex chain — a roller chain having two sets of rollers linked together, used for heavy-duty applications
- dust catcher — Informal. a knickknack or other household object that is little used.
- dutch guiana — former name of Suriname.
- dutch harbor — a U.S. naval base on Unalaska Island, in the Aleutian Islands.
- dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
- dwarf cherry — any of several low, North American cherries that grow on dry or sandy soil, especially Prunus pumila, of the Great Lakes region.
- dynamic html — (language, web) (DHTML) The addition of JavaScript to HTML to allow web pages to change and interact with the user without having to communicate with the server. JavaScript allows the behaviour of the page to be controlled by code that is downloaded with the HTML. It does this by manipulating the Document Object Model (DOM). The term DHTML is often also taken to include the use of "style" information to give finer control of HTML layout. The style information can be supplied as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or as "style" attributes (which can be manipulated by JavaScript). Layers are often also used with DHTML. Both the JavaScript and style data can be included in the HTML file or in a separate file referred to from the HTML. Some web browsers allow other languages (e.g. VBScript or Perl) to be used instead of JavaScript but this is less common. DHTML can be viewed in Internet Explorer 4+, Firefox and Netscape Communicator 4+ but, as usual, Microsoft disagree on how DHTML should be implemented. The Document Object Model Group of the World Wide Web Consortium is developing standards for DHTML.
- dysaesthetic — relating to or suffering from dysaesthesia
- echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- edith cavell — Edith Louisa, 1865–1915, English nurse: executed by the Germans in World War I.