13-letter words containing m, a, d, e, s
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dolman sleeve — a sleeve tapered from a very large armhole to fit closely at the wrist, used on women's garments.
- dome fastener — a fastening device consisting of one part with a projecting knob that snaps into a hole on another like part, used esp in closures in clothing
- domesday book — a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- drama student — a student who is training to become an actor
- dreamcatchers — Plural form of dreamcatcher.
- dreamlessness — The state or condition of being dreamless; lack of dreams.
- 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.
- dynamic scope — (language) In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
- dynamogenesis — the output of raised activity of the nervous system
- dyslipidaemia — Alternative spelling of dyslipidemia.
- dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
- dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
- easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
- edam (cheese) — a mild, yellow cheese, made in a round mold and usually having a coating of red paraffin
- edmund andros — Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
- edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
- embarrassedly — In an embarrassed manner.
- endocommensal — a commensal living within the body of the host organism
- endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
- eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
- excess demand — a situation in which the market demand for a commodity is greater than its market supply, thus causing its market price to rise
- false diamond — any of a number of semiprecious stones that resemble diamond, such as zircon and white topaz
- fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
- feeder stream — a tributary that feeds into a larger river, canal, etc
- feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
- field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
- fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
- garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
- grand slammer — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
- grandma moses — Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses") 1860–1961, U.S. painter.
- haemodialyses — Plural form of haemodialysis.
- haemodialysis — (medicine) the use of dialysis to remove waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- handsome lake — 1735-1815; Seneca prophet, social reformer, & founder of a North American Indian religion named after him
- head linesman — an official who makes rulings regarding play along the line of scrimmage and who oversees the measurement and marking of yardage gained or lost
- head of steam — momentum; driving power
- headmistressy — typical of the duties and behaviour of a headmistress
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hereditaments — Plural form of hereditament.
- hermaphrodism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
- holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.