13-letter words containing h, i, e, d
- dilettanteish — Alternative form of dilettantish.
- dimethylamine — a colourless strong-smelling gas produced from ammonia and methanol, used to produce many industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals
- dimethylketol — acetoin.
- dimmer switch — A dimmer switch is an electrical switch which turns off the full beam of a headlamp and turns on the low beam.
- dimmer-switch — a person or thing that dims.
- dinitrophenol — any of the six isomers consisting of phenol where two hydrogen atoms are substituted by nitro groups, C 6 H 4 N 2 O 5 , used in dyes and wood preservatives, and in biochemistry to uncouple oxidative phosphorylation.
- diotheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
- diphenoxylate — a substance, C 30 H 32 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride in the treatment of diarrhea.
- diphenylamine — a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble benzene derivative, C 12 H 11 N, used chiefly in the preparation of various dyes, as a stabilizer for nitrocellulose propellants, and for the detection of oxidizing agents in analytical chemistry.
- diphthongized — Simple past tense and past participle of diphthongize.
- direct method — a technique of foreign-language teaching in which only the target language is used, little instruction is given concerning formal rules of grammar, and language use is often elicited in situational contexts.
- direct speech — actual words spoken, not quoted or reported
- directorships — Plural form of directorship.
- disaccharides — Plural form of disaccharide.
- dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- disenchanting — Present participle of disenchant.
- disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disfellowship — (in some Protestant religions) the status of a member who, because of some serious infraction of church policy, has been denied the church's sacraments and any post of responsibility and is officially shunned by other members.
- disfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of disfranchise.
- disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
- dish the dirt — share gossip
- dishabilitate — to disqualify
- dishabituated — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- disharmonized — Simple past tense and past participle of disharmonize.
- disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disinheriting — Present participle of disinherit.
- disinthralled — freed from thraldom
- dispatch case — attaché case.
- dispense with — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.
- distinguished — made conspicuous by excellence; noted; eminent; famous: a distinguished scholar. Synonyms: renowned, illustrious.
- distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- distinguishes — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- divine mother — the creative, dynamic aspect of the Godhead, the consort or Shakti of Brahma, Vishnu, or Shiva, variously known as Devi, Durga, Kālī, Shakti, etc.
- divinyl ether — vinyl ether.
- dizzy heights — If you say that someone has reached the dizzy heights of something, you are emphasizing that they have reached a very high level by achieving it.
- do the dishes — do the washing up, wash the dishes
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- dolichocephal — a person with a head much longer than it is broad
- domain handle — (networking) Information held by a domain name registrar about a registrant (the person or organisation that owns the name). Typically the registrar stores one copy of this information and refers to that copy for each additional domain registered by the same person. The information would include basic contact details: name, e-mail address, etc. and billing information. Some of this information would be used to populate the whois database entry for a domain.
- domain theory — (theory) A branch of mathematics introduced by Dana Scott in 1970 as a mathematical theory of programming languages, and for nearly a quarter of a century developed almost exclusively in connection with denotational semantics in computer science. In denotational semantics of programming languages, the meaning of a program is taken to be an element of a domain. A domain is a mathematical structure consisting of a set of values (or "points") and an ordering relation, <= on those values. Domain theory is the study of such structures. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq) Different domains correspond to the different types of object with which a program deals. In a language containing functions, we might have a domain X -> Y which is the set of functions from domain X to domain Y with the ordering f <= g iff for all x in X, f x <= g x. In the pure lambda-calculus all objects are functions or applications of functions to other functions. To represent the meaning of such programs, we must solve the recursive equation over domains, D = D -> D which states that domain D is (isomorphic to) some function space from D to itself. I.e. it is a fixed point D = F(D) for some operator F that takes a domain D to D -> D. The equivalent equation has no non-trivial solution in set theory. There are many definitions of domains, with different properties and suitable for different purposes. One commonly used definition is that of Scott domains, often simply called domains, which are omega-algebraic, consistently complete CPOs. There are domain-theoretic computational models in other branches of mathematics including dynamical systems, fractals, measure theory, integration theory, probability theory, and stochastic processes. See also abstract interpretation, bottom, pointed domain.
- domino theory — a theory that if one country is taken over by an expansionist, especially Communist, neighbor, party, or the like, the nearby nations will be taken over one after another.
- doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
- dorothy dixer — a parliamentary question asked by a member of the government so that the minister may give a prepared answer
- down the line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
- down-the-line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.