13-letter words containing l, a, d
- dactylomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the fingers or toes.
- dactylozooids — Plural form of dactylozooid.
- daily-breader — a commuter.
- dalton system — a method of progressive education whereby students contract to carry through on their own responsibility the year's work as divided up into monthly assignments.
- dame's violet — a Eurasian hairy perennial plant, Hesperis matronalis, cultivated in gardens for its mauve or white fragrant flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- dancing class — a meeting of a group of student dancers for tuition in dancing
- danger signal — any type of signal that indicates danger
- dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
- danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
- dar es salaam — the chief port of Tanzania, on the Indian Ocean: capital of German East Africa (1891–1916); capital of Tanzania until 1983 when it was officially replaced by Dodoma, though still retaining some functions; university (1963). Pop: 2 683 000 (2005 est)
- darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
- darling range — a ridge in SW Western Australia, parallel to the coast. Highest point: about 582 m (1669 ft)
- darling river — a river in SE Australia, rising in the Eastern Highlands and flowing southwest to the Murray River. Length: 2740 km (1702 miles)
- das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- dastardliness — The state or quality of being dastardly.
- data modeling — (spelling) US spelling of "data modelling".
- dataveillance — the surveillance of a person's activities by studying the data trail created by actions such as credit card purchases, mobile phone calls, and internet use
- daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
- dauntlessness — The characteristic of being dauntless; fearlessness.
- day blindness — hemeralopia.
- daydreamingly — While daydreaming.
- daylight lamp — a lamp whose light has a range of wavelengths similar to that of natural sunlight
- daylight time — time set usually one hour ahead of the local standard time, widely adopted in the summer to provide extra daylight in the evening
- de-capitalize — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
- 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 penalty — The death penalty is the punishment of death used in some countries for people who have committed very serious crimes.
- death-dealing — fatal; lethal
- deathlessness — The state of being deathless; eternity.
- debit balance — the amount of money owed to a lender, etc
- decapitalised — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
- decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).
- decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
- decarboxylate — to take away a carboxyl group from (an organic compound) or (of an organic compound) to lose a carboxyl group
- decasyllables — Plural form of decasyllable.
- decentralised — Simple past tense and past participle of decentralise.
- decentralized — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
- decentralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decentralize.
- decimal place — the position of a digit after the decimal point, each successive position to the right having a denominator of an increased power of ten
- decimal point — A decimal point is the dot in front of a decimal fraction.
- declaratively — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
- declinational — Relating to declination.
- decolonialize — decolonize.
- decompilation — The act, or the result of decompiling.
- decriminalise — Alternative spelling of decriminalize.
- decriminalize — When a criminal offence is decriminalized, the law changes so that it is no longer a criminal offence.
- deculturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- 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.