13-letter words containing d, o, m, s, a
- disharmonized — Simple past tense and past participle of disharmonize.
- dissemination — the act of disseminating, or spreading widely: The Internet allows for the rapid dissemination of information.
- disseminators — Plural form of disseminator.
- dissimilation — the act of making or becoming unlike.
- dissimilatory — to modify by dissimilation.
- dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- document case — a flat, portable case, often of leather, for carrying papers, documents etc.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dolman sleeve — a sleeve tapered from a very large armhole to fit closely at the wrist, used on women's garments.
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- dome fastener — a fastening device consisting of one part with a projecting knob that snaps into a hole on another like part, used esp in closures in clothing
- domesday book — a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- doomsday book — Domesday Book.
- doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
- dramatisation — Alternative spelling of dramatization.
- draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
- dromaeosaurid — A carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of a late Cretaceous family that included deinonychus and the velociraptors. They had a large slashing claw on each hind foot.
- 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
- dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
- dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
- easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
- edmund andros — Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
- endocommensal — a commensal living within the body of the host organism
- endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
- eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
- false diamond — any of a number of semiprecious stones that resemble diamond, such as zircon and white topaz
- fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
- flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
- grandma moses — Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses") 1860–1961, U.S. painter.
- haemodialyses — Plural form of haemodialysis.
- haemodialysis — (medicine) the use of dialysis to remove waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- hampton roads — a channel in SE Virginia between the mouth of the James River and Chesapeake Bay: battle between the Monitor and the Virginia 1862.
- handsome lake — 1735-1815; Seneca prophet, social reformer, & founder of a North American Indian religion named after him
- head of steam — momentum; driving power
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hermaphrodism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
- homestead act — a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
- homestead law — any law exempting homesteads from seizure or sale for debt.