13-letter words containing m, c, s, d
- discommodious — Not commodious; uncomfortable.
- discomycetous — of or relating to the subclass of fungus Discomycetes
- disconfirming — Not confirming.
- disconformity — Geology. the surface of a division between parallel rock strata, indicating interruption of sedimentation: a type of unconformity.
- discordianism — (recreation) /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ The veneration of Eris, also known as Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularised by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Illuminatus!" as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners - it should on no account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from "Principia Discordia": "A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads." Discordianism is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati. See Religion, Church of the SubGenius, and ha ha only serious.
- discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
- discriminably — So as to be discriminable; distinguishably.
- discriminants — Plural form of discriminant.
- discriminated — Simple past tense and past participle of discriminate.
- discriminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discriminate.
- discriminator — a person or thing that discriminates.
- disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- document case — a flat, portable case, often of leather, for carrying papers, documents etc.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- 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.
- doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
- dramatic arts — the art of the writing and production of plays; drama
- dreamcatchers — Plural form of dreamcatcher.
- 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.
- dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
- edam (cheese) — a mild, yellow cheese, made in a round mold and usually having a coating of red paraffin
- encyclopedism — Comprehensive learning or knowledge.
- endocommensal — a commensal living within the body of the host organism
- endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
- endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
- 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
- geodesic dome — a light, domelike structure developed by R. Buckminster Fuller to combine the properties of the tetrahedron and the sphere and consisting essentially of a grid of compression or tension members lying upon or parallel to great circles running in three directions in any given area, the typical form being the projection upon a sphere of an icosahedron, the triangular faces of which are filled with a symmetrical triangular, hexagonal, or quadrangular grid.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- handcraftsman — A handicraftsman.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
- homestead act — a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
- homoscedastic — having the same variance.
- hydrodynamics — the branch of fluid dynamics that deals with liquids, including hydrostatics and hydrokinetics.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- idiomaticness — Idiomaticity.
- incommodities — Plural form of incommodity.
- macrodynamics — Large-scale dynamics.
- madeira sauce — a savoury sauce made with Madeira wine and served with meat
- magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.