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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
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