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13-letter words containing d, e, c, a, p

  • dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
  • dolichocephal — a person with a head much longer than it is broad
  • 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.
  • electroplated — Simple past tense and past participle of electroplate.
  • encyclopaedia — (chiefly, UK, Australia) alternative spelling of encyclopedia.
  • encyclopaedic — Alternative spelling of encyclopedic.
  • encyclopedian — including a wide circle of learning
  • encyclopedias — Plural form of encyclopedia.
  • endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
  • endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
  • epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
  • escape device — a device with a collapsible extensible slide, used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
  • expert advice — advice given by someone who has studied a subject thoroughly or who is very skilled at a particular job
  • feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
  • field captain — a member of a team taking active part in a game who is authorized to make decisions for the team, especially in regard to planning plays, deciding whether to accept penalties called by an official against the opponents, etc.
  • fitted carpet — wall-to-wall carpeting
  • fixed capital — capital goods, as machinery and tools, that are relatively durable and can be used repeatedly in the production of goods.
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
  • humped cattle — any of several breeds of domestic cattle developed from the Indian species Bos indicus and characterized by a hump of fat and muscle over the shoulders.
  • hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
  • hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
  • hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hyperdactylia — the presence of extra fingers or toes.
  • iceland poppy — any of various widely cultivated arctic poppies, esp Papaver nudicaule, with white or yellow nodding flowers
  • idealized csp — (language)   A programming language combining simply typed, call-by-name procedures with asynchronous communicating processes, assuming fair parallel execution. Idealized CSP generalises Anthony Hoare's original CSP and Kahn's networks of deterministic processes, and is closely related to Parallel Algol by Stephen Brookes of CMU. Procedures permit the encapsulation of common protocols and parallel programming idioms. Local variables and local channel declarations provide a way to delimit the scope of interference between parallel agents, and allow a form of concurrent object-oriented programming.
  • ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
  • impredicative — (of a definition) given in terms that require quantification over a range that includes that which is to be defined, as having all the properties of a great general where one of the properties as ascribed must be that property itself
  • impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
  • incapacitated — unable to act, respond, or the like (often used euphemistically when one is busy or otherwise occupied): He can't come to the phone now—he's incapacitated.
  • interpandemic — occurring between two pandemics
  • kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
  • kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
  • kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
  • maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
  • meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
  • multimedia pc — multimedia
  • multiplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of multiplicate.
  • municipalized — Simple past tense and past participle of municipalize.
  • neck and crop — completely; entirely
  • nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
  • nonperiodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
  • nucleocapsids — Plural form of nucleocapsid.
  • old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
  • open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
  • optical drive — optical disk drive
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