13-letter words containing i, d, e, a, o
- contradictive — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
- coresidential — relating to joint residency
- cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
- cough and die — (jargon) barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
- cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
- cyberchondria — unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one's health brought on by visiting health and medical websites
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- dairy produce — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
- dame's violet — a Eurasian hairy perennial plant, Hesperis matronalis, cultivated in gardens for its mauve or white fragrant flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
- dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
- das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- data modeling — (spelling) US spelling of "data modelling".
- date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
- de-annexation — the act or an instance of annexing, or adding to something larger, especially the incorporation of new territory into the domain of a city, country, or state.
- de-excitation — to cause (an atom) to fall from an excited energy level to a lower energy level.
- de-motivation — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
- deaccessioned — Simple past tense and past participle of deaccession.
- deacetylation — to remove the acetyl group from (an organic compound).
- dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
- death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
- deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
- debit account — a bank account which allows you to buy goods or services with money that you have put into the account
- decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
- decanoic acid — white crystalline insoluble carboxylic acid with an unpleasant odour, used in perfumes and for making fruit flavours
- decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.
- decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
- decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
- decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
- dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
- decimal point — A decimal point is the dot in front of a decimal fraction.
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- declinational — Relating to declination.
- decolonialize — decolonize.
- decompilation — The act, or the result of decompiling.
- decontaminate — To decontaminate something means to remove all germs or dangerous substances from it.
- decorticating — Present participle of decorticate.
- decortication — the act or process of decorticating.
- decrepitation — to roast or calcine (salt, minerals, etc.) so as to cause crackling or until crackling ceases.
- deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- deduplication — (computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
- defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
- defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
- defloration's — the act of deflowering.
- deforestation — to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.