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

  • 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 case — a small piece of luggage for carrying toilet articles, medicine, etc.
  • dressing down — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
  • dressing gown — a tailored robe worn for lounging or for grooming, applying makeup, etc.
  • dressing room — a room for use in getting dressed, especially one for performers backstage in a theater, television studio, etc.
  • dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
  • dressing-down — a severe reprimand; scolding.
  • drilling crew — The drilling crew are the people who operate a drilling rig.
  • drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
  • driving force — impetus
  • driving range — a tract of land for practicing long golf shots, especially drives, with clubs and balls available for rent from the management.
  • driving wheel — Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
  • drongo shrike — any insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics, having a glossy black plumage, a forked tail, and a stout bill
  • dronkverdriet — drunk and maudlin
  • 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.
  • dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
  • dual alliance — the alliance between France and Russia (1890), strengthened by a military convention (1892–93) and lasting until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
  • duc d'enghien — Duc [dyk] /dük/ (Show IPA), (Louis Antoine Henry de Bourbon-Condé) 1772–1804, French prince: executed by Napoleon I.
  • due diligence — the degree of care that is to be reasonably expected or that is legally required, esp. of persons giving professional advice
  • due-diligence — reasonable care and caution exercised by a person who is buying, selling, giving professional advice, etc., especially as required by law to protect against incurring liability: The court said there was due diligence on the part of the plaintiff.
  • duino elegies — a collection of ten poems (1923) by Rainer Maria Rilke.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • earned income — income from wages, salaries, fees, or the like, accruing from labor or services performed by the earner.
  • easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
  • eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • 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
  • edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
  • 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]>.
  • edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.
  • educationally — pertaining to education.
  • educationists — Plural form of educationist.
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
  • eff and blind — to use obscene language
  • eggs benedict — dish of poached eggs, ham and cream
  • electioneered — Simple past tense and past participle of electioneer.
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