13-letter words containing d, i, a, g, n
- disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disintegrated — Simple past tense and past participle of disintegrate.
- disintegrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disintegrate.
- disintegrator — One who, or that which, disintegrates.
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- disobligation — the state of being without obligation
- disorganizing — Present participle of disorganize.
- disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- disparagingly — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- dispraisingly — By way of dispraise.
- disqualifying — Present participle of disqualify.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- dissatisfying — Present participle of dissatisfy.
- disseminating — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissimilating — Present participle of dissimilate.
- dissimulating — Present participle of dissimulate.
- distractingly — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- dna computing — (architecture) The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
- dogmatization — The process or result of dogmatizing.
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- domiciliating — Present participle of domiciliate.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- drafting yard — a yard fenced into compartments for the holding and sorting of livestock.
- dragging-beam — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
- dragon lizard — Komodo dragon.
- dragon's tail — (formerly) the descending node of the moon or a planet.
- drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
- drainage wind — Meteorology. gravity wind.
- drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
- drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
- drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
- drawing paper — artist's paper for drawing and sketching
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- dressing case — a small piece of luggage for carrying toilet articles, medicine, etc.
- dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
- drilling mast — A drilling mast is a structure over an oil well which supports the drilling equipment and allows it to be lifted into and out of the wellbore.
- drip painting — a technique of abstract painting exemplified chiefly in the later works of Jackson Pollack and marked by the intricately executed dripping and pouring of the paint on a canvas placed on the floor.
- driving chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- driving range — a tract of land for practicing long golf shots, especially drives, with clubs and balls available for rent from the management.
- drum magazine — a receptacle that holds and feeds cartridges to a submachine gun or light machine gun.
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
- dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
- dynamic range — the range of signal amplitudes over which an electronic communications channel can operate within acceptable limits of distortion. The range is determined by system noise at the lower end and by the onset of overload at the upper end
- dynamogenesis — the output of raised activity of the nervous system
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn