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13-letter words containing d, a, y

  • directorially — In terms of film direction.
  • dirty laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
  • dirty old man — a mature or elderly man with lewd or obscene preoccupations.
  • dirty realism — a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
  • dirty-laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
  • discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
  • discovery day — Columbus Day.
  • discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
  • discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • discriminably — So as to be discriminable; distinguishably.
  • disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
  • dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
  • disk capacity — the maximum number of bytes that can be held on a disk
  • disobligatory — not obligatory
  • disordinately — in a manner that lacks order
  • disparagingly — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
  • display panel — an electronic screen on which information can be displayed
  • disposability — designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up: disposable plastic spoons; a disposable cigarette lighter.
  • dispraisingly — By way of dispraise.
  • dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
  • disqualifying — Present participle of disqualify.
  • dissatisfying — Present participle of dissatisfy.
  • dissimilarity — unlikeness; difference.
  • dissimilatory — to modify by dissimilation.
  • distastefully — In a distasteful manner.
  • distortionary — an act or instance of distorting.
  • distractingly — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • disyllabicity — The state or characteristic of having two syllables.
  • documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • dollar-a-year — of or being an official or employee, especially a federal appointee, who receives a token annual salary, usually of one dollar: a dollar-a-year man.
  • domain theory — (theory)   A branch of mathematics introduced by Dana Scott in 1970 as a mathematical theory of programming languages, and for nearly a quarter of a century developed almost exclusively in connection with denotational semantics in computer science. In denotational semantics of programming languages, the meaning of a program is taken to be an element of a domain. A domain is a mathematical structure consisting of a set of values (or "points") and an ordering relation, <= on those values. Domain theory is the study of such structures. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq) Different domains correspond to the different types of object with which a program deals. In a language containing functions, we might have a domain X -> Y which is the set of functions from domain X to domain Y with the ordering f <= g iff for all x in X, f x <= g x. In the pure lambda-calculus all objects are functions or applications of functions to other functions. To represent the meaning of such programs, we must solve the recursive equation over domains, D = D -> D which states that domain D is (isomorphic to) some function space from D to itself. I.e. it is a fixed point D = F(D) for some operator F that takes a domain D to D -> D. The equivalent equation has no non-trivial solution in set theory. There are many definitions of domains, with different properties and suitable for different purposes. One commonly used definition is that of Scott domains, often simply called domains, which are omega-algebraic, consistently complete CPOs. There are domain-theoretic computational models in other branches of mathematics including dynamical systems, fractals, measure theory, integration theory, probability theory, and stochastic processes. See also abstract interpretation, bottom, pointed domain.
  • domesday book — a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
  • 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.
  • donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • doomsday book — Domesday Book.
  • doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
  • double whammy — twofold misfortune
  • downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
  • drafting yard — a yard fenced into compartments for the holding and sorting of livestock.
  • drama therapy — a type of psychotherapy encouraging patients to use dramatic techniques to deal with emotional and psychological problems.
  • dressy casual — (of clothes) informal yet expensive, smart, or stylish
  • dual monarchy — the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.
  • dualistically — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
  • duplicability — The quality of being duplicable.
  • dynamic range — the range of signal amplitudes over which an electronic communications channel can operate within acceptable limits of distortion. The range is determined by system noise at the lower end and by the onset of overload at the upper end
  • 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.
  • dynamogenesis — the output of raised activity of the nervous system
  • dyothelitical — relating to dyotheletism
  • dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
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