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

  • downside risk — an estimate of the potential loss of value of an investment in a falling market
  • draft version — a preliminary version
  • dragon lizard — Komodo dragon.
  • dragon's tail — (formerly) the descending node of the moon or a planet.
  • dramatisation — Alternative spelling of dramatization.
  • dramatization — the act of dramatizing.
  • drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
  • drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
  • 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 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-down — a severe reprimand; scolding.
  • drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • drink to that — People say 'I'll drink to that' to show that they agree with and approve of something that someone has just said.
  • drinking song — a song of hearty character suitable for singing by a group engaged in convivial drinking.
  • driving force — impetus
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 national — a person that has dual nationality
  • duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
  • ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
  • duino elegies — a collection of ten poems (1923) by Rainer Maria Rilke.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
  • dutch auction — a method of auction consisting in the offer of a property at a price above the actual value and then at gradually reduced prices until a buyer is found.
  • 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
  • dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
  • dysrationalia — The inability to think and behave rationally despite adequate intelligence.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • electioneered — Simple past tense and past participle of electioneer.
  • 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
  • encyclopaedia — (chiefly, UK, Australia) alternative spelling of encyclopedia.
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