14-letter words containing d, r, i, p
- dermatographic — relating to dermatography
- design pattern — (programming) A description of an object-oriented design technique which names, abstracts and identifies aspects of a design structure that are useful for creating an object-oriented design. The design pattern identifies classes and instances, their roles, collaborations and responsibilities. Each design pattern focuses on a particular object-oriented design problem or issue. It describes when it applies, whether it can be applied in the presence of other design constraints, and the consequences and trade-offs of its use.
- despiritualize — to render less spiritual; to remove the spiritual character of; to make more material
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- diaheliotropic — exhibiting diaheliotropism
- diaper service — a service that provides clean diapers to parents and takes away dirty diapers to wash them
- diaphragm pump — A diaphragm pump is a pump in which a diaphragm is used to move a fluid.
- dictionary apl — Sharp APL
- diethylpropion — a sympathomimetic substance, C 13 H 19 NO⋅HCl, used as an appetite suppressor and a short-term adjunct in the management of certain kinds of obesity.
- diffeomorphism — a differentiable homeomorphism.
- diffuse-porous — having annual rings in which the size of pores is approximately the same in wood formed in spring and summer.
- dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
- dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
- direct deposit — a plan in which salaries or other payments are transferred by the paying agency directly to the accounts of the recipients.
- direct primary — a primary in which members of a party nominate its candidates by direct vote.
- direct product — a group, or other such system, every element of which can be written uniquely as the product of elements of disjoint groups, with each group contributing one element to the product.
- directed graph — (digraph) A graph with one-way edges. See also directed acyclic graph.
- disappearances — Plural form of disappearance.
- disapprobation — disapproval; condemnation.
- disapprobatory — Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.
- disappropriate — To remove something that has been allocated to someone; often to reassign it elsewhere.
- disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disceptatorial — disputable
- discerpibility — the quality of being able to be discerped
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- disciplinarian — a person who enforces or advocates discipline: The teacher was a formidable disciplinarian.
- disciplinaries — Plural form of disciplinary.
- disciplinarily — In a disciplinary way.
- disciplinarity — The quality of being an academic discipline.
- disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
- discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
- disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
- dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
- dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
- dispersal zone — a defined area in which any police or community support officer can force any group of two or more people to disperse for 24 hours
- dispersibility — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- dispiritedness — The state or condition of being dispirited.
- disproportions — Plural form of disproportion.
- disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
- disrespectable — not respectable.
- disruptiveness — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
- door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- dragging piece — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
- draining spoon — a spoon with holes in it
- draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
- draw a picture — represent sth visually
- drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.