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13-letter words containing d, e, a

  • 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 paste — a technique used in word processing by which a section of text can be moved within a document
  • 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-and-paste — assembled or produced from various existing bits and pieces: The book purports to be a history but is just a cut-and-paste job of old essays and newspaper clippings.
  • cyberchondria — unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one's health brought on by visiting health and medical websites
  • cylinder head — the detachable metal casting that fits onto the top of a cylinder block. In an engine it contains part of the combustion chamber and in an overhead-valve four-stroke engine it houses the valves and their operating mechanisms
  • cylinder seal — a cylindrical seal of stone, clay, or precious stone decorated with linear designs, found in the Middle East and Balkans: dating from about 6000 bc
  • cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
  • dactylomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the fingers or toes.
  • 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.
  • daily-breader — a commuter.
  • dairy produce — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • dalton system — a method of progressive education whereby students contract to carry through on their own responsibility the year's work as divided up into monthly assignments.
  • damage survey — an inspection by an insurance company of something that has been damaged and for which an insurance claim has been made, in order to determine the extent and cause of damage
  • damaged goods — a person considered to be less than perfect psychologically, as a result of a traumatic experience
  • dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
  • dame's violet — a Eurasian hairy perennial plant, Hesperis matronalis, cultivated in gardens for its mauve or white fragrant flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • damson cheese — thick damson jam
  • dance company — a group of dancers, usually including business and technical personnel
  • dance hostess — a woman who hosts a ball at her house
  • 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.
  • dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
  • danger signal — any type of signal that indicates danger
  • dangerousness — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
  • dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
  • danse macabre — dance of death
  • danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
  • dar es salaam — the chief port of Tanzania, on the Indian Ocean: capital of German East Africa (1891–1916); capital of Tanzania until 1983 when it was officially replaced by Dodoma, though still retaining some functions; university (1963). Pop: 2 683 000 (2005 est)
  • 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
  • darling range — a ridge in SW Western Australia, parallel to the coast. Highest point: about 582 m (1669 ft)
  • darling river — a river in SE Australia, rising in the Eastern Highlands and flowing southwest to the Murray River. Length: 2740 km (1702 miles)
  • das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
  • dastardliness — The state or quality of being dastardly.
  • data modeling — (spelling)   US spelling of "data modelling".
  • data security — the protection of data stored on computers
  • 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).
  • dataveillance — the surveillance of a person's activities by studying the data trail created by actions such as credit card purchases, mobile phone calls, and internet use
  • date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
  • dating agency — an agency that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
  • 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
  • dauntlessness — The characteristic of being dauntless; fearlessness.
  • day after day — If something happens day after day, it happens every day without stopping.
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