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13-letter words containing d, e, p, i

  • candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
  • cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
  • capello index — a player rating website backed by Fabio Capello in which marks are awarded to football players in the top teams according to their performance in key skills of the game
  • captain's bed — a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
  • cat distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • child process — (operating system)   A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
  • chilli powder — Chilli powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chillies. It is used in cooking.
  • chopped liver — cooked liver chopped with onions and hard-boiled eggs and seasoned.
  • co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
  • code position — (character)   An integer that a coded character set maps to a character. A code position is normally stored or transmitted by applying a character encoding to turn it into a byte string.
  • coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
  • commandership — a person who commands.
  • compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
  • compiled html — (filename extension)   A Microsoft file format for distributing a collection of HTML files, along with their associated images, sounds, etc., as a single compressed archive file. Microsoft use this format for Windows HTML Help files. Most chms include a project (.hhp) file listing the included files and basic settings, a contents (.hhc) file, an index (.hhk) file, html files, and, optionally, image files. Users view chms with hh.exe, the HTML Help viewer installed with Internet Explorer. Filename extension: .chm.
  • complicatedly — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
  • componentized — Simple past tense and past participle of componentize.
  • compound time — compound meter
  • comprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
  • conidiophores — Plural form of conidiophore.
  • contemporised — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
  • contemporized — Simple past tense and past participle of contemporize.
  • copolymerized — Polymerized, along with another compound, to form a copolymer.
  • copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
  • corresponding — parallel; equivalent
  • counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
  • coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
  • creep-feeding — the practice of feeding young farm animals (esp piglets, calves, and lambs) in a sectioned-off part of their indoor environment, in order to prevent the mother from gaining access to the food
  • dairy produce — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • de-capitalize — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
  • decapitalised — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
  • decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.
  • deceptibility — the ability to be deceived
  • deception bed — any of various kinds of concealed or disguised beds designed in the 18th century.
  • deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
  • decimal place — the position of a digit after the decimal point, each successive position to the right having a denominator of an increased power of ten
  • decimal point — A decimal point is the dot in front of a decimal fraction.
  • decompilation — The act, or the result of decompiling.
  • decomposition — Decomposition is the process of decay that takes place when a living thing changes chemically after dying.
  • decompounding — Present participle of decompound.
  • decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
  • decompression — Decompression is the reduction of the force on something that is caused by the weight of the air.
  • decrepitating — Present participle of decrepitate.
  • decrepitation — to roast or calcine (salt, minerals, etc.) so as to cause crackling or until crackling ceases.
  • deduplication — (computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
  • deemphasizing — Present participle of deemphasize.
  • deep discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
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