13-letter words containing d, e, m, u, r
- deutocerebrum — (zoology) The median lobes of the brain of an insect.
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- disburdenment — The removal of a burden; an unburdening.
- disbursements — Plural form of disbursement.
- disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
- disfigurement — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- documentarian — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- 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.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
- 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
- dolly mixture — a mixture of small coloured sweets
- drama student — a student who is training to become an actor
- dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
- dromaeosaurid — A carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of a late Cretaceous family that included deinonychus and the velociraptors. They had a large slashing claw on each hind foot.
- drug smuggler — trafficker in illegal substances
- drum magazine — a receptacle that holds and feeds cartridges to a submachine gun or light machine gun.
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- 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.
- dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- edmund andros — Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
- edmund gunter — Edmund, 1581–1626, English mathematician and astronomer: inventor of various measuring instruments and scales.
- endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
- felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
- ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
- foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
- froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- glamour model — a woman who models topless or nude for photographs
- gliding lemur — flying lemur.
- golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
- good-humoured — having or showing a pleasant, amiable mood: a good-humored man; a good-humored remark.
- goodhumoredly — In a good-humored manner.
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- herd immunity — the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.
- here document — (operating system) Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
- hydromedusoid — a jellyfish or something resembling a jellyfish that lives in water
- ideal mixture — An ideal mixture is a mixture in which the concentration of any part taken from it is the same as the average for the whole.
- indian summer — a period of mild, dry weather, usually accompanied by a hazy atmosphere, occurring usually in late October or early November and following a period of colder weather.
- indirect jump — (programming) A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
- kettledrummer — a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.
- lucid dreamer — a person who has lucid dreams, either naturally or as a result of training
- madeira sauce — a savoury sauce made with Madeira wine and served with meat
- magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.