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13-letter words containing m, e, a, n, d

  • 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
  • domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
  • domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
  • dragging-beam — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
  • dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
  • drama student — a student who is training to become an actor
  • drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
  • drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
  • dreamlessness — The state or condition of being dreamless; lack of dreams.
  • drum magazine — a receptacle that holds and feeds cartridges to a submachine gun or light machine gun.
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • 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.
  • dynamic range — the range of signal amplitudes over which an electronic communications channel can operate within acceptable limits of distortion. The range is determined by system noise at the lower end and by the onset of overload at the upper end
  • 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
  • dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
  • dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
  • earned income — income from wages, salaries, fees, or the like, accruing from labor or services performed by the earner.
  • easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
  • 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.
  • emotionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of emotionalize.
  • enantiodromia — (psychiatry, according to Carl Jung) The principle whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium.
  • enantiodromic — relating to enantiodromia
  • enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
  • endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
  • endocommensal — a commensal living within the body of the host organism
  • endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
  • 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
  • family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
  • family-minded — devoted to one's family
  • fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
  • female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • five-and-dime — a shop that sells a wide variety of things at a cheap price
  • frame of mind — mental state
  • france modern — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
  • fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
  • fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
  • fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • 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
  • gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • gerrymandered — Simple past tense and past participle of gerrymander.
  • gerrymanderer — a person who gerrymanders
  • glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
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