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13-letter words containing n, d, p

  • corresponding — parallel; equivalent
  • counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
  • coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
  • creep-feeding — the practice of feeding young farm animals (esp piglets, calves, and lambs) in a sectioned-off part of their indoor environment, in order to prevent the mother from gaining access to the food
  • crepe bandage — a bandage made of light cotton crepe
  • cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
  • custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
  • cut and paste — a technique used in word processing by which a section of text can be moved within a document
  • cut-and-paste — assembled or produced from various existing bits and pieces: The book purports to be a history but is just a cut-and-paste job of old essays and newspaper clippings.
  • dance company — a group of dancers, usually including business and technical personnel
  • dance therapy — the use of dance or movement for therapeutic purposes; a form of therapy in which people are encouraged to express their feelings through dance or movement.
  • danish pastry — Danish pastries are cakes made from sweet pastry. They are often filled with things such as apple or almond paste.
  • data striping — (storage)   Segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be written to multiple physical devices (usually disk drives) in a round-robin fashion. This technique is useful if the processor is capable of reading or writing data faster than a single disk can supply or accept it. While data is being transferred from the first disk, the second disk can locate the next segment. Data striping is used in some modern databases, such as Sybase, and in certain RAID devices under hardware control, such as IBM's RAMAC array subsystem (9304/9395). Data striping is different from, and may be used in conjunction with, mirroring.
  • death penalty — The death penalty is the punishment of death used in some countries for people who have committed very serious crimes.
  • decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.
  • deception bed — any of various kinds of concealed or disguised beds designed in the 18th century.
  • deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
  • decimal point — A decimal point is the dot in front of a decimal fraction.
  • decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
  • decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
  • decompilation — The act, or the result of decompiling.
  • decomposition — Decomposition is the process of decay that takes place when a living thing changes chemically after dying.
  • decompounding — Present participle of decompound.
  • decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
  • decompression — Decompression is the reduction of the force on something that is caused by the weight of the air.
  • decrepitating — Present participle of decrepitate.
  • decrepitation — to roast or calcine (salt, minerals, etc.) so as to cause crackling or until crackling ceases.
  • deduplication — (computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
  • deemphasizing — Present participle of deemphasize.
  • deep discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
  • deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
  • deep-discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
  • deep-freezing — the process of freezing food at a very low temperature for storage
  • deipnosophist — a person who is a master of dinner-table conversation
  • demand paging — (memory management)   A kind of virtual memory where a page of memory will be paged in if an attempt is made to access it and it is not already present in main memory. This normally involves a memory management unit which looks up the virtual address in a page map to see if it is paged in. If it is not then the operating system will page it in, update the page map and restart the failed access. This implies that the processor must be able to recover from and restart a failed memory access or must be suspended while some other mechanism is used to perform the paging. Paging in a page may first require some other page to be moved from main memory to disk ("paged out") to make room. If this page has not been modified since it was paged in, it can simply be reused without writing it back to disk. This is determined from the "modified" or "dirty" flag bit in the page map. A replacement algorithm or policy is used to select the page to be paged out, often this is the least recently used (LRU) algorithm.
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
  • deng xiaoping — 1904–97, Chinese Communist statesman; deputy prime minister (1973–76; 1977–80) and the dominant figure in the Chinese government from 1977 until his death. He was twice removed from office (1967–73, 1976–77) and rehabilitated. He introduced economic liberalization, but suppressed demands for political reform, most notably in 1989 when over 2500 demonstrators were killed by the military in Tiananmen Square in Beijing
  • dental plaque — a filmy deposit on the surface of a tooth consisting of a mixture of mucus, bacteria, food, etc
  • dependability — software reliability
  • depersonalise — Alternative spelling of depersonalize.
  • depersonalize — To depersonalize a system or a situation means to treat it as if it did not really involve people, or to treat it as if the people involved were not really important.
  • dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
  • deposit money — checks, letters of credit, etc., that circulate and are payable on demand.
  • deprecatingly — to express earnest disapproval of.
  • depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
  • depressogenic — Causing or tending to cause depression.
  • deprivatizing — Present participle of deprivatize.
  • deprotonation — (chemistry) The removal of a proton (hydrogen ion) from a molecule to form a conjugate base.
  • deptford pink — a plant, Dianthus armeria, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having slender, erect stems and leaves and clusters of small, bright pink flowers.
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