13-letter words containing d, y, a, i
- danish pastry — Danish pastries are cakes made from sweet pastry. They are often filled with things such as apple or almond paste.
- dare i say it — You use 'dare I say it' when you know that what you are going to say will disappoint or annoy someone.
- data security — the protection of data stored on computers
- dating agency — an agency that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- day and night — If something happens day and night or night and day, it happens all the time without stopping.
- day blindness — hemeralopia.
- day of infamy — December 7, 1941, on which Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II: so referred to by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his speech to Congress the next day, asking for a declaration of war on Japan.
- daydreamingly — While daydreaming.
- daylight lamp — a lamp whose light has a range of wavelengths similar to that of natural sunlight
- daylight time — time set usually one hour ahead of the local standard time, widely adopted in the summer to provide extra daylight in the evening
- deacetylation — to remove the acetyl group from (an organic compound).
- declaratively — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
- defeasibility — capable of being annulled or terminated.
- defendability — (uncountable) The condition of being defendable.
- deferentially — showing deference; deferent; respectful.
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- degradability — susceptible to chemical breakdown.
- delectability — The quality of being delectable.
- demagogically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a demagogue.
- demyelinating — Present participle of demyelinate.
- demyelination — The removal of the myelin sheath from a nerve fibre, normally as a result of disease.
- deoxygenating — Present participle of deoxygenate.
- deoxygenation — to remove oxygen from (a substance, as blood or water).
- dependability — software reliability
- deployability — Military. to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.
- deprecatingly — to express earnest disapproval of.
- deprecatorily — In a deprecatory manner.
- designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
- despicability — Despicableness.
- detachability — The quality of being detachable.
- detectability — the quality of being detectable
- determinately — having defined limits; definite.
- deterrability — the quality of being deterrable
- detestability — The state or quality of being detestable.
- detrimentally — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
- devastatingly — tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- dialectically — of, relating to, or of the nature of logical argumentation.
- dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
- dialyzability — to subject to dialysis; separate or procure by dialysis.
- diametrically — If you say that two things are diametrically opposed, you are emphasizing that they are completely different from each other.
- diaphototropy — the state of being diaphototropic, turning transversely to the light
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dictatorially — In a dictatorial manner.
- dicyandiamide — a white, crystalline, rather sparingly water-soluble solid, C 2 H 4 N 4 , produced from cyanamide by polymerization: used in the manufacture of plastics and pharmaceuticals.
- dietary fiber — fiber (def 9).
- dietary fibre — fibrous substances in fruits and vegetables, such as the structural polymers of cell walls, consumption of which aids digestion and is believed to help prevent certain diseases
- diethylacetal — acetal (def 1).
- digraphically — in a digraphic manner