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13-letter words containing d, e, a, l, m

  • dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
  • digital frame — a picture frame containing an LCD screen that is used to display digital photos: Download pictures to your digital frame directly from your camera's memory card.
  • digital meter — A digital meter is a meter that gives a separate reading, in the form of a decimal number, for each given input quantity.
  • dilettanteism — The condition of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
  • dimensionally — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
  • dimethylamine — a colourless strong-smelling gas produced from ammonia and methanol, used to produce many industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals
  • diphenylamine — a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble benzene derivative, C 12 H 11 N, used chiefly in the preparation of various dyes, as a stabilizer for nitrocellulose propellants, and for the detection of oxidizing agents in analytical chemistry.
  • direct-mailer — a person or firm engaged in direct-mail advertising.
  • 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
  • disassembling — Present participle of disassemble.
  • disassimilate — to break down (a complex molecule or substance) into simple ones through catabolism
  • discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
  • disentailment — The action of freeing property from entail.
  • disilluminate — to darken
  • dismantlement — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
  • displacements — Plural form of displacement.
  • dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
  • documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
  • 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.
  • dolman sleeve — a sleeve tapered from a very large armhole to fit closely at the wrist, used on women's garments.
  • domain handle — (networking)   Information held by a domain name registrar about a registrant (the person or organisation that owns the name). Typically the registrar stores one copy of this information and refers to that copy for each additional domain registered by the same person. The information would include basic contact details: name, e-mail address, etc. and billing information. Some of this information would be used to populate the whois database entry for a domain.
  • domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
  • double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
  • double whammy — twofold misfortune
  • dreamlessness — The state or condition of being dreamless; lack of dreams.
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • dumb terminal — (hardware)   A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
  • dyslipidaemia — Alternative spelling of dyslipidemia.
  • dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
  • electrodermal — Of or relating to measurement of the electrical conductivity of the skin, especially as an indicator of someone’s emotional responses.
  • embarrassedly — In an embarrassed manner.
  • emotionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of emotionalize.
  • endocommensal — a commensal living within the body of the host organism
  • endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
  • endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
  • false diamond — any of a number of semiprecious stones that resemble diamond, such as zircon and white topaz
  • family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
  • family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
  • family-minded — devoted to one's family
  • fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
  • female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
  • female thread — a helical groove in a cylindrical hole formed by a tap or lathe tool
  • feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
  • field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
  • flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
  • fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
  • fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
  • gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
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