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13-letter words containing d, s

  • drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
  • dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
  • drug smuggler — trafficker in illegal substances
  • dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
  • dry ski slope — A dry ski slope is a slope made of an artificial substance on which you can practise skiing.
  • dual controls — If a vehicle used by a driving instructor has dual controls, it has pedals on the passenger's side as well as on the driver's side to allow the driving instructor to brake should the learner try to move off when it is dangerous to do so
  • dualistically — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
  • duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
  • ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
  • duff's device — The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm. Trying to bum all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then realised that the unrolled version could be implemented by *interlacing* the structures of a switch and a loop: register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */ switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *to = *from++; case 7: *to = *from++; case 6: *to = *from++; case 5: *to = *from++; case 4: *to = *from++; case 3: *to = *from++; case 2: *to = *from++; case 1: *to = *from++; } while (--n > 0); } Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default fall through in case statements has long been its most controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
  • duino elegies — a collection of ten poems (1923) by Rainer Maria Rilke.
  • dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
  • duplicitously — In a duplicitous, two-faced manner.
  • durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • durable press — permanent press.
  • durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
  • dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
  • dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
  • dyer's rocket — weld2 .
  • 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
  • dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • dyslipidaemia — Alternative spelling of dyslipidemia.
  • dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
  • dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
  • dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
  • dysmorphology — The study of genetic defects, especially congenital malformations.
  • dysrationalia — The inability to think and behave rationally despite adequate intelligence.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • earth-goddess — a goddess of fertility and vegetation.
  • east flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1150 sq. mi. (2980 sq. km). Capital: Ghent.
  • east hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
  • east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
  • easter candle — a tall candle, symbolizing Christ, that is sometimes blessed and placed on the gospel side of an altar on Holy Saturday and kept burning until Ascension Day.
  • easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
  • easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
  • easter parade — a parade held on or near Easter Day, in particular a strolling procession in and around Fifth Avenue New York City (celebrated by Irving Berlin in a song, which gave rise to a film of the same name) for which people dress up in especially smart clothes; this derives from an older tradition of wearing new clothes at Easter in honour of the festival.
  • easter sunday — Easter (def 2).
  • easter-ledges — a pudding made from the young leaves of the bistort
  • eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
  • eavesdroppers — Plural form of eavesdropper.
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • edam (cheese) — a mild, yellow cheese, made in a round mold and usually having a coating of red paraffin
  • eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
  • edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.
  • editorialists — Plural form of editorialist.
  • editorializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of editorialize.
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