13-letter words containing d, r, e, a, i
- drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
- drainage wind — Meteorology. gravity wind.
- drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
- draw the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
- drawing paper — artist's paper for drawing and sketching
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- dresden china — porcelain ware produced at Meissen, Germany, near Dresden, after 1710.
- dressing case — a small piece of luggage for carrying toilet articles, medicine, etc.
- dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
- drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
- drive a wedge — If someone drives a wedge between two people who are close, they cause ill feelings between them in order to weaken their relationship.
- driver's seat — the seat from which a vehicle is operated.
- driving range — a tract of land for practicing long golf shots, especially drives, with clubs and balls available for rent from the management.
- 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.
- dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
- drum magazine — a receptacle that holds and feeds cartridges to a submachine gun or light machine gun.
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
- dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
- dynamic range — the range of signal amplitudes over which an electronic communications channel can operate within acceptable limits of distortion. The range is determined by system noise at the lower end and by the onset of overload at the upper end
- 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.
- east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
- easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
- eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
- editorialists — Plural form of editorialist.
- editorialized — Simple past tense and past participle of editorialize.
- editorializer — One who editorializes.
- editorializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of editorialize.
- edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
- edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
- eighth-grader — someone who is in the eighth grade at school
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- 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
- endearingness — The quality of being endearing.
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
- endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
- epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
- equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
- equiponderate — To counterbalance.
- eta reduction — eta conversion
- evidentiarily — In an evidentiary way.
- exercise yard — a piece of enclosed ground in a prison on which inmates can exercise in order to get fit and to remain healthy