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13-letter words containing d, o, s

  • dissolve into — If you dissolve into or dissolve in tears or laughter, you begin to cry or laugh, because you cannot control yourself.
  • distillations — Plural form of distillation.
  • distortedness — The quality of being distorted.
  • distortionary — an act or instance of distorting.
  • distributions — Plural form of distribution.
  • divarications — Plural form of divarication.
  • diversionists — Plural form of diversionist.
  • division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
  • division ring — a ring in which the set of nonzero elements is a group with the operation of multiplication.
  • division sign — the symbol (÷) or (/) placed between two expressions and denoting division of the first by the second.
  • do justice to — to show to full advantage
  • do one's nana — to become very angry
  • do the dishes — do the washing up, wash the dishes
  • do the honors — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
  • do-nothingism — the policy or practice of opposing a specific measure or change simply by refusing to consider or act on proposals; deliberate obstructionism.
  • 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.
  • dod-std-2167a — (standard)   A DoD standard specifying the overall process for the development and documentation of mission-critical software systems.
  • dodecahedrons — Plural form of dodecahedron.
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • dog's disease — influenza.
  • dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
  • dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
  • dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
  • 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.
  • domestic fowl — a chicken.
  • 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.
  • donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • doomsday book — Domesday Book.
  • doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
  • doppelgangers — Plural form of doppelganger.
  • doppler laser — a technique for measuring the shift in frequency between the source and reflected radiation of a laser.
  • doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
  • dos requester — (networking)   An MS-DOS client that provides transparent redirection of printing and file accesses to a network server. It handles levels 3, 4 and 5 of the Open Systems Interconnect seven layer model. A DOS requester under Novell NetWare will interface to a network card driver with an ODI interface, and will be either a single executable (netx.exe) or a set of VLMs that are loaded on demand. In the IBM/Microsoft LAN Manager/SMB world, where the name DOS redirector is more common, there will be an NDIS interface driver and a net.exe executable.
  • double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
  • double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
  • double vision — diplopia.
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • doubtlessness — The property of being doubtless.
  • douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
  • down syndrome — Down syndrome is a disorder that some people are born with. People who have Down syndrome have physical differences, such as shorter stature, and learning difficulties.
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