13-letter words containing i, n, d, a, t, u
- 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
- 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.
- deglutination — to extract the gluten from.
- degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
- denaturalized — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturalize.
- denaturations — Plural form of denaturation.
- denticulation — a denticulate structure
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- denunciations — Plural form of denunciation.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- digital fount — a typeface of which the letter-shapes have been converted into digital form so that they can be used in computer-aided typesetting
- dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
- dinoturbation — the effect or process of trampling and major disturbance to sedimentary rock layers caused by the movement of dinosaurs
- dirty laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
- dirty-laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
- disaster fund — a fund set up to relieve people or countries afflicted by a disaster
- discount card — a card that entitles the holder to buy goods from a seller at a discount
- discount rate — the rate of interest charged in discounting commercial paper.
- disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- disilluminate — to darken
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- disreputation — disrepute.
- 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.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
- drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
- dual national — a person that has dual nationality
- 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.
- dutch auction — a method of auction consisting in the offer of a property at a price above the actual value and then at gradually reduced prices until a buyer is found.
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- dzibilchaltun — a large, ancient Mayan ceremonial and commercial center near Mérida, Mexico, founded perhaps as early as 3000 b.c. and in continuous use until the 16th century.