12-letter words containing d, i, k
- daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
- deck officer — a ship's officer who is part of the deck crew
- dedekind cut — a method of according the same status to irrational and rational numbers, devised by Julius Wilhelm Dedekind (1831–1916)
- deep kissing — the act of taking part in a deep kiss
- deep linking — Digital Technology. the practice of using a link that sends traffic to an internal web page with more relevant or specific content, rather than to the website's home page, as to increase user engagement.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- denim jacket — a jacket made of a hard-wearing twill-weave cotton fabric
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- dialkylamine — (organic chemistry) Any secondary amine formed from two alkyl groups.
- diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
- diet kitchen — a kitchen, as in a hospital, where special food is prepared for those requiring it.
- dinner knife — a knife used in eating the main course of a meal.
- dirty tricks — underhand activities and machinations in political or governmental affairs, usually intended to discredit an opponent
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
- display hack — (graphics) A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix "rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym psychedelicware.
- display pack — an empty box, etc, on a shop shelf, advertising a piece of merchandise that, due to its value or size, is not stored on the shelf. The display pack is normally taken to the till and there exchanged, on payment, for the actual item
- do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- docking keel — one of two keellike projections for bracing a hull of a ship against bilge blocks when the ship is in dry dock.
- dockominiums — Plural form of dockominium.
- dolphin kick — (in the butterfly stroke) a kick in which the legs move up and down together, with the knees bent on the upswing.
- double-click — to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file: Double-click on the desktop icon.
- double-quick — very quick or rapid.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- dream ticket — If journalists talk about a dream ticket, they are referring to two candidates for political positions, for example President and Vice-President, or Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, who they think will be extremely successful.
- drink-driver — A drink-driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
- drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
- drinks party — a cocktail party
- drizzle cake — a sponge cake that has syrup drizzled over it immediately after baking
- drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- drunk driver — A drunk driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- dynamic link — (compiler) A pointer from an activation record to the activation record for the scope from which the current scope was called at run time. This is used in a statically scoped language to restore the environment pointer on exit from a scope. To access a non-local variable in a dynamically scoped language, dynamic links are followed until a binding for the given variable name is found.
- energy drink — beverage: added vitamins, etc.
- fair-skinned — having pale skin; pale-complexioned
- fiddlesticks — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
- field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
- field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- fort detrick — a military reservation in N Maryland, NW of Frederick.
- franked mail — official mail sent by members of Congress, the vice president, and other authorized officials. Compare frank1 (defs 6–9).
- frederick ii — Frederick I (def 2).
- frederick iv — Frederick III (def 1).
- frederick ix — (Frederick Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg) 1899–1972, king of Denmark 1947–72.
- goldbricking — Present participle of goldbrick.
- good-looking — of good or attractive appearance; handsome or beautiful: a good-looking young man; a good-looking hat.
- gordian knot — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.