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13-letter words containing e, a, s, y

  • cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
  • daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
  • dalton system — a method of progressive education whereby students contract to carry through on their own responsibility the year's work as divided up into monthly assignments.
  • damage survey — an inspection by an insurance company of something that has been damaged and for which an insurance claim has been made, in order to determine the extent and cause of damage
  • 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
  • day blindness — hemeralopia.
  • days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
  • decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
  • decasyllables — Plural form of decasyllable.
  • declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
  • defeasibility — capable of being annulled or terminated.
  • dehydrogenase — an enzyme, such as any of the respiratory enzymes, that activates oxidation-reduction reactions by transferring hydrogen from substrate to acceptor
  • demonstratory — having the quality of demonstrating
  • denmark vesey — Denmark, 1767–1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.
  • dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
  • dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
  • designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
  • despicability — Despicableness.
  • detestability — The state or quality of being detestable.
  • devastatingly — tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
  • dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
  • dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
  • digressionary — Serving as a digression.
  • dimensionally — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
  • dirty realism — a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
  • discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
  • discovery day — Columbus Day.
  • discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
  • discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
  • disordinately — in a manner that lacks order
  • display panel — an electronic screen on which information can be displayed
  • dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
  • distastefully — In a distasteful manner.
  • domesday book — a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
  • donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • dressy casual — (of clothes) informal yet expensive, smart, or stylish
  • 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
  • dyslipidaemia — Alternative spelling of dyslipidemia.
  • dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
  • dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • early closing — shop closure at earlier hour
  • early english — pertaining to the first style of Gothic architecture in England, ending in the latter half of the 13th century, characterized by the use of lancet arches, plate tracery, and narrow openings.
  • earnest money — money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract.
  • east ayrshire — a council area of SW Scotland, comprising the E part of the historical county of Ayrshire: part of Strathclyde region from 1975 to 1996: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Kilmarnock. Pop: 119 530 (2003 est). Area: 1252 sq km (483 sq miles)
  • east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
  • east by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of east. Abbreviation: EbS.
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