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12-letter words containing d, a, l, t

  • donald knuth — (person)   Donald E. Knuth, the author of the TeX document formatting system, Metafont its font-design program and the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of algorithms, "The Art of Computer Programming". Knuth suggested the name "Backus-Naur Form" and was also involved in the SOL simulation language, and developed the WEB literate programming system. See also MIX, Turingol.
  • donatistical — relating to a Donatist or Donatism
  • doodly-squat — a minimum amount or degree; the least bit (usually used in the negative): This coin collection isn't worth doodly-squat in today's market.
  • dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
  • dorsolateral — of, relating to, or affecting the back and the side.
  • dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
  • double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
  • double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
  • double fault — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) two faults in succession, resulting in the loss of the point, the loss of the serve, or both.
  • double steal — a play in which two base runners steal a base each.
  • double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
  • dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
  • down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
  • downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
  • draft animal — an animal used for pulling heavy loads.
  • draft letter — the first version of a letter
  • draggle-tail — slut; slattern.
  • dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence
  • dramatically — of or relating to the drama.
  • dramatizable — Capable of being dramatized.
  • drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
  • drillability — Machinery, Building Trades. a shaftlike tool with two or more cutting edges for making holes in firm materials, especially by rotation. a tool, especially a hand tool, for holding and operating such a tool.
  • drillmasters — Plural form of drillmaster.
  • drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
  • driveability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
  • drop initial — inset initial.
  • dual citizen — a person who is a citizen or subject of two or more nations; one having dual citizenship.
  • dual-control — having dual controls
  • dubitatively — in a dubitative manner
  • duodecastyle — dodecastyle.
  • duplicatable — capable of being duplicated.
  • duplications — Plural form of duplication.
  • dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
  • 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.
  • dynastically — In a dynastic (or dynastical) way.
  • dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
  • dysregulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dysregulate.
  • earth almond — chufa.
  • ectrodactyly — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • edith cavell — Edith Louisa, 1865–1915, English nurse: executed by the Germans in World War I.
  • editorial we — we (def 6).
  • editorialise — Alternative spelling of editorialize.
  • editorialist — an article in a newspaper or other periodical or on a website presenting the opinion of the publisher, writer, or editor.
  • editorialize — to set forth one's position or opinion on some subject in, or as if in, an editorial.
  • edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
  • edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
  • edulcorative — edulcorant
  • elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
  • elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
  • elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
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