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

  • domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
  • domineeringly — In a domineering manner.
  • domino effect — the cumulative effect that results when one event precipitates a series of like events.
  • domino theory — a theory that if one country is taken over by an expansionist, especially Communist, neighbor, party, or the like, the nearby nations will be taken over one after another.
  • don't mind me — You say 'Don't mind me' to apologize for your presence when you think that it might embarrass someone, and to tell them to carry on with what they were doing or about to do.
  • dormer window — in sloping roof
  • double-minded — wavering or undecided in mind.
  • dragging-beam — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
  • drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • dressing room — a room for use in getting dressed, especially one for performers backstage in a theater, television studio, etc.
  • drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • 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.
  • drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • dynamogenesis — the output of raised activity of the nervous system
  • dyslipidaemia — Alternative spelling of dyslipidemia.
  • dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
  • earned income — income from wages, salaries, fees, or the like, accruing from labor or services performed by the earner.
  • economic good — a commodity or service that can be utilized to satisfy human wants and that has exchange value.
  • economy drive — a campaign by the government or a firm to reduce expenditure and make savings
  • 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]>.
  • edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
  • embryoid body — an aggregate of cells that have developed from stem cells
  • emotionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of emotionalize.
  • enantiodromia — (psychiatry, according to Carl Jung) The principle whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium.
  • enantiodromic — relating to enantiodromia
  • encyclopedism — Comprehensive learning or knowledge.
  • end of medium — (character)   (EM) ASCII character 25.
  • endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
  • endometriosis — A condition resulting from the appearance of endometrial tissue outside the uterus and causing pelvic pain.
  • endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
  • endosymbiosis — Symbiosis in which one of the symbiotic organisms lives inside the other.
  • endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
  • endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
  • epidemiologic — Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
  • epidermolysis — Loosening of the epidermis, with extensive blistering of the skin and mucous membranes, occurring either after injury, or as a spontaneous and potentially dangerous condition, particularly in children.
  • ethnomedicine — (medicine) traditional folk-medicine.
  • eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
  • eventide home — a retirement home
  • false diamond — any of a number of semiprecious stones that resemble diamond, such as zircon and white topaz
  • family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
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