13-letter words containing i, m, u
- demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).
- demi-detourne — a turn in which the dancer on pointe or demi-pointe completes a half turn toward the back foot and lowers the heels, with the back foot finishing in front.
- demultiplexer — a type of electronic circuit which receives a single input signal and selects one of multiple possible output routes to which to transmit the signal
- destructivism — the theory that a part of a whole may be considered a principle part if the destruction of that part would lead to the destruction of the whole
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- deuteronomist — one of the writers of Deuteronomy
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dichotomously — divided or dividing into two parts.
- dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
- disaccustomed — Simple past tense and past participle of disaccustom.
- disambiguated — Simple past tense and past participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disambiguate.
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- disburdenment — The removal of a burden; an unburdening.
- disbursements — Plural form of disbursement.
- discommodious — Not commodious; uncomfortable.
- discomycetous — of or relating to the subclass of fungus Discomycetes
- disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
- disfigurement — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disharmonious — inharmonious; discordant.
- disilluminate — to darken
- dissimilitude — unlikeness; difference; dissimilarity.
- dissimulating — Present participle of dissimulate.
- dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
- dna computing — (architecture) The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentarian — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
- documentation — the use of documentary evidence.
- documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
- dolly mixture — a mixture of small coloured sweets
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- domical vault — cloistered vault.
- double-minded — wavering or undecided in mind.
- dramaturgical — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
- dromaeosaurid — A carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of a late Cretaceous family that included deinonychus and the velociraptors. They had a large slashing claw on each hind foot.
- drum magazine — a receptacle that holds and feeds cartridges to a submachine gun or light machine gun.
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- e-recruitment — the practice of using Internet or electronic resources to recruit new employees, as by searching online résumé databases.
- ecumenicalism — the doctrines and practices of the ecumenical movement.
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- empyreumatise — to render empyreumatic