13-letter words containing d, o, m, s, a
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- compactedness — the state of being compacted
- comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
- condemnations — Plural form of condemnation.
- condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- costardmonger — a costermonger
- costume drama — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
- côtes-d'armor — a department of W France, on the N coast of Brittany. Capital: St Brieuc. Pop: 553 969 (2003 est). Area: 6878 sq km (2656 sq miles)
- customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
- dalton system — a method of progressive education whereby students contract to carry through on their own responsibility the year's work as divided up into monthly assignments.
- damaged goods — a person considered to be less than perfect psychologically, as a result of a traumatic experience
- dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
- dame's violet — a Eurasian hairy perennial plant, Hesperis matronalis, cultivated in gardens for its mauve or white fragrant flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- damson cheese — thick damson jam
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
- decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- delimitations — Plural form of delimitation.
- demimondaines — Plural form of demimondaine.
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- demonstrating — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- demonstration — A demonstration is a march or gathering which people take part in to show their opposition to something or their support for something.
- demonstrative — Someone who is demonstrative shows affection freely and openly.
- demonstrators — a person or thing that demonstrates.
- demonstratory — having the quality of demonstrating
- denominations — Plural form of denomination.
- dermatologies — Plural form of dermatology.
- dermatologist — A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in the study of skin and the treatment of skin diseases.
- dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
- dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- determinators — determiner (def 1).
- dexamethasone — a type of powerful steroid, used as an anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant
- diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
- diamond snake — a python, Morelia argus, of Australia and New Guinea, with yellow diamond-shaped markings
- diamond state — Delaware (used as a nickname).
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
- dimensionally — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
- disaccustomed — Simple past tense and past participle of disaccustom.
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- discordianism — (recreation) /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ The veneration of Eris, also known as Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularised by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Illuminatus!" as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners - it should on no account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from "Principia Discordia": "A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads." Discordianism is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati. See Religion, Church of the SubGenius, and ha ha only serious.
- discriminator — a person or thing that discriminates.
- disestimation — the act of having esteem removed
- disharmonious — inharmonious; discordant.