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12-letter words containing d, o, i, n

  • dockominiums — Plural form of dockominium.
  • doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
  • doctrinarian — A doctrinaire.
  • doctrination — (nonstandard) indoctrination.
  • docutainment — infotainment (def 2).
  • dodecagynian — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
  • dodecaphonic — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • dog's dinner — mess, failure
  • dolphin kick — (in the butterfly stroke) a kick in which the legs move up and down together, with the knees bent on the upswing.
  • dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
  • domain model — (systems analysis)   1. A definition of the functions, objects, data, requirements, relationships and variations in a particular domain. 2. A product of domain analysis which provides a representation of the requirements of the domain. The domain model identifies and describes the structure of data, flow of information, functions, constraints and controls within the Domain that are included in software systems in the domain. The Domain Model describes commonalities and variabilities among requirements for software systems in the domain.
  • dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
  • dominion day — Canada Day
  • domino paper — a marbleized or figured decorative paper, used for wallpaper, end papers, etc., printed from wood blocks and colored by hand.
  • don giovanni — an opera (1787) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
  • donatistical — relating to a Donatist or Donatism
  • donets basin — a river rising in the SW Russian Federation near Belgorod, flowing SE through Ukraine to the Don River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
  • doomwatching — the act of watching the environment to warn of and prevent harm
  • door curtain — a curtain that fills a doorway
  • doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
  • dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
  • dorsiflexion — flexion toward the back.
  • dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
  • dosing strip — (in New Zealand) an area set aside for treating dogs suspected of having hydatid disease
  • dot notation — (networking)   Berkeley Unix notation for an Internet address, consisting of one to four numbers (a "dotted quad") in hexadecimal (leading 0x), octal (leading 0), or (usually) decimal. It represents a 32-bit address. Each leading number represents eight bits of the address (high byte first) and the last number represents the rest. E.g. address 0x25.32.0xab represents 0x252000ab. By far the most common form is four decimal numbers, e.g. 146.169.22.42. Many programs accept an address in dot notation in place of a hostname.
  • double-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know which subjects are receiving the active medication, treatment, etc., and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias from the test results.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
  • downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
  • downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
  • downy mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
  • draconically — (often lowercase) Draconian.
  • dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence
  • drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
  • drawing room — a formal reception room, especially in an apartment or private house.
  • dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
  • drift anchor — a sea anchor or drag.
  • 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
  • driving iron — Golf. a club with a long shaft and an iron head the face of which has almost no slope, for hitting long, low drives.
  • drop curtain — a curtain that is lowered into position from the flies.
  • drop forging — a product made by drop-forging
  • drop initial — inset initial.
  • droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
  • dry mounting — the technique of fastening a print, photograph, or the like to a board by using a heated thermoplastic tissue as an adhesive.
  • duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
  • ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
  • dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
  • dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
  • duodecennial — relating to twelve years
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