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13-letter words containing d, c, s

  • documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • dodecahedrons — Plural form of dodecahedron.
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
  • dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
  • domestic fowl — a chicken.
  • domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
  • domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
  • doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
  • double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
  • douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
  • dramatic arts — the art of the writing and production of plays; drama
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • dualistically — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
  • duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
  • ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
  • 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."
  • duplicitously — In a duplicitous, two-faced manner.
  • dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
  • dyer's rocket — weld2 .
  • 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.
  • dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
  • easter candle — a tall candle, symbolizing Christ, that is sometimes blessed and placed on the gospel side of an altar on Holy Saturday and kept burning until Ascension Day.
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • edam (cheese) — a mild, yellow cheese, made in a round mold and usually having a coating of red paraffin
  • eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
  • edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.
  • educationists — Plural form of educationist.
  • eggs benedict — dish of poached eggs, ham and cream
  • encyclopedias — Plural form of encyclopedia.
  • encyclopedism — Comprehensive learning or knowledge.
  • encyclopedist — A person who writes, edits, or contributes to an encyclopedia.
  • endocommensal — a commensal living within the body of the host organism
  • endonucleases — Plural form of endonuclease.
  • endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
  • endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
  • endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
  • epicondylitis — A painful inflammation of tendons surrounding an epicondyle.
  • escape device — a device with a collapsible extensible slide, used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
  • eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
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