13-letter words containing d, i, p, n
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- draftsmanship — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, as of machines, structures, etc.
- drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
- drawing paper — artist's paper for drawing and sketching
- drilling ship — a ship provided with drilling equipment and used especially for carrying out test drills
- drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- 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.
- drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
- drownproofing — a survival technique, for swimmers or nonswimmers, in which the body is allowed to float vertically in the water, with the head submerged, the lungs filled with air, and the arms and legs relaxed, the head being raised to breathe every ten seconds or so.
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
- durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
- 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.
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- encyclopaedia — (chiefly, UK, Australia) alternative spelling of encyclopedia.
- encyclopaedic — Alternative spelling of encyclopedic.
- encyclopedian — including a wide circle of learning
- encyclopedias — Plural form of encyclopedia.
- encyclopedism — Comprehensive learning or knowledge.
- encyclopedist — A person who writes, edits, or contributes to an encyclopedia.
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
- endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
- endopeptidase — An enzyme that breaks peptide bonds other than terminal ones in a peptide chain.
- endopolyploid — relating to endopolyploidy
- epanadiplosis — a figure of speech involving the same word being used at the beginning and the end
- epicondylitis — A painful inflammation of tendons surrounding an epicondyle.
- epidotization — the process of changing into epidote
- equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
- equiponderate — To counterbalance.
- eve's pudding — a baked sponge pudding with a layer of apple at the bottom
- expandability — (uncountable) The condition of being expandable.
- expeditionary — Of or forming an expedition, especially a military expedition.
- expeditionist — (rare) One who goes on an expedition.
- expendability — The state or quality of being expendable.
- exponentiated — Simple past tense and past participle of exponentiate.
- field captain — a member of a team taking active part in a game who is authorized to make decisions for the team, especially in regard to planning plays, deciding whether to accept penalties called by an official against the opponents, etc.
- field spaniel — one of a British breed of spaniels having a flat or slightly waved, usually black coat, used for hunting and retrieving game.
- filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
- fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
- fingerprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerprint.
- folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
- food shopping — shopping to buy food
- free-spending — spending or tending to spend freely: If you don't mend your free-spending ways, you'll go bankrupt.
- freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
- gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
- gonadotrophin — a gonadotropic substance.
- gonadotropins — Plural form of gonadotropin.