13-letter words containing h, o, i
- depathologize — (transitive) To cease to treat as a medical disorder.
- dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- desynchronize — Disturb the synchronization of; put out of step or phase.
- devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
- diacatholicon — an all-purpose remedy
- dialect coach — a person whose job is to train actors to speak in the authentic accent and manner of a particular area
- diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
- diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
- diaphototropy — the state of being diaphototropic, turning transversely to the light
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dichotomising — Present participle of dichotomise.
- dichotomistic — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomizing — Present participle of dichotomize.
- dichotomously — divided or dividing into two parts.
- dictatorships — Plural form of dictatorship.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- diethyl oxide — ether (def 1).
- diffeomorphic — (mathematics) Having a diffeomorphism.
- diiodomethane — methylene iodide.
- dimethylketol — acetoin.
- 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.
- diphthongally — in a diphthongal manner
- 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.
- directorships — Plural form of directorship.
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- 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.
- disharmonious — inharmonious; discordant.
- disharmonized — Simple past tense and past participle of disharmonize.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- disinhibition — Psychology. a temporary loss of inhibition caused by an outside stimulus.
- disinhibitory — (esp of a drug) causing temporary loss of inhibition
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- 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.
- do the dishes — do the washing up, wash the dishes
- do-nothingism — the policy or practice of opposing a specific measure or change simply by refusing to consider or act on proposals; deliberate obstructionism.
- 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
- dolichocranic — dolichocephalic.
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- 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.