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13-letter words containing d, i, r, t

  • credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
  • credentialled — having credentials
  • credibilities — the quality of being believable or worthy of trust: After all those lies, his credibility was at a low ebb.
  • credit agency — an agency that checks whether people are able to pay for goods and services they wish to buy on credit, and provides them with a credit rating
  • credit bureau — an agency that is a clearinghouse for information on the credit rating of individuals or firms
  • credit crunch — A credit crunch is a period during which there is a sudden reduction in the amount of money that banks and other lenders have available to lend.
  • credit rating — Your credit rating is a judgment of how likely you are to pay money back if you borrow it or buy things on credit.
  • creditability — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
  • crested swift — any of several birds of the family Hemiprocnidae, of southeast Asia and the East Indies, related to the true swifts but differing in having erectile crests and the habit of perching in trees.
  • crotonic acid — type of colourless acid
  • crystalloidal — Relating to a crystalloid.
  • culture fluid — the fluid used as a medium for growing microorganisms
  • current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
  • cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
  • cut-and-dried — prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
  • cutter-rigged — fore-and-aft-rigged on one mast in the manner of a cutter.
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • dairy factory — a factory making butter, cheese, lactose, etc from milk collected from surrounding farming areas
  • danish pastry — Danish pastries are cakes made from sweet pastry. They are often filled with things such as apple or almond paste.
  • dare i say it — You use 'dare I say it' when you know that what you are going to say will disappoint or annoy someone.
  • dark internet — Also called dark Net, lost Net. the portion of the Internet that is hidden from search engines and cannot be accessed, as because the IP address is no longer working.
  • dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
  • dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
  • dasht-i-kavir — a salt waste on the central plateau of Iran: a treacherous marsh beneath a salt crust
  • dastardliness — The state or quality of being dastardly.
  • data security — the protection of data stored on computers
  • data striping — (storage)   Segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be written to multiple physical devices (usually disk drives) in a round-robin fashion. This technique is useful if the processor is capable of reading or writing data faster than a single disk can supply or accept it. While data is being transferred from the first disk, the second disk can locate the next segment. Data striping is used in some modern databases, such as Sybase, and in certain RAID devices under hardware control, such as IBM's RAMAC array subsystem (9304/9395). Data striping is different from, and may be used in conjunction with, mirroring.
  • date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
  • death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
  • deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
  • decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
  • decentralised — Simple past tense and past participle of decentralise.
  • decentralized — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
  • decentralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decentralize.
  • decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
  • decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
  • dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
  • decision tree — a treelike diagram illustrating the choices available to a decision maker, each possible decision and its estimated outcome being shown as a separate branch of the tree
  • declaratively — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
  • decorticating — Present participle of decorticate.
  • decortication — the act or process of decorticating.
  • decrepitating — Present participle of decrepitate.
  • decrepitation — to roast or calcine (salt, minerals, etc.) so as to cause crackling or until crackling ceases.
  • deculturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
  • deferentially — showing deference; deferent; respectful.
  • defibrillated — Simple past tense and past participle of defibrillate.
  • defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
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