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13-letter words containing d, a, r, t

  • creditability — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
  • crotonic acid — type of colourless acid
  • cruel-hearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
  • crystalloidal — Relating to a crystalloid.
  • custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
  • custard cream — a biscuit consisting of two layers with a filling of vanilla-flavoured paste
  • customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
  • cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
  • cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
  • cut-and-dried — prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
  • cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • dactylography — the scientific study of fingerprints for purposes of identification
  • daguerreotype — one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
  • daguerreotypy — The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
  • daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
  • dairy factory — a factory making butter, cheese, lactose, etc from milk collected from surrounding farming areas
  • dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
  • dance therapy — the use of dance or movement for therapeutic purposes; a form of therapy in which people are encouraged to express their feelings through dance or movement.
  • danish pastry — Danish pastries are cakes made from sweet pastry. They are often filled with things such as apple or almond paste.
  • dare i say it — You use 'dare I say it' when you know that what you are going to say will disappoint or annoy someone.
  • dark internet — Also called dark Net, lost Net. the portion of the Internet that is hidden from search engines and cannot be accessed, as because the IP address is no longer working.
  • dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
  • dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
  • dasht-i-kavir — a salt waste on the central plateau of Iran: a treacherous marsh beneath a salt crust
  • dastardliness — The state or quality of being dastardly.
  • data security — the protection of data stored on computers
  • data striping — (storage)   Segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be written to multiple physical devices (usually disk drives) in a round-robin fashion. This technique is useful if the processor is capable of reading or writing data faster than a single disk can supply or accept it. While data is being transferred from the first disk, the second disk can locate the next segment. Data striping is used in some modern databases, such as Sybase, and in certain RAID devices under hardware control, such as IBM's RAMAC array subsystem (9304/9395). Data striping is different from, and may be used in conjunction with, mirroring.
  • data transfer — (data)   Copying or moving data from one place to another, typically via some kind of network (e.g. Asynchronous Transfer Mode, File Transfer Protocol) or local data connection (bus, SCSI, IDE, SATA).
  • date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
  • daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • day after day — If something happens day after day, it happens every day without stopping.
  • death chamber — a room in which someone has died
  • death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
  • death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
  • death warrant — A death warrant is an official document which orders that someone is to be executed as a punishment for a crime.
  • deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
  • decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
  • decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).
  • decarboxylate — to take away a carboxyl group from (an organic compound) or (of an organic compound) to lose a carboxyl group
  • decentralised — Simple past tense and past participle of decentralise.
  • decentralized — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
  • decentralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decentralize.
  • decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
  • decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
  • dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
  • declaratively — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • deconcentrate — to make or become less concentrated
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