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13-letter words containing n, o, d, m, i, c

  • dactyliomancy — the use of a suspended finger-ring for divination
  • damnification — That which causes damage or loss.
  • decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
  • decimal point — A decimal point is the dot in front of a decimal fraction.
  • decision time — a time at which an important decision must be taken
  • decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
  • declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
  • decommissions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decommission.
  • decommunizing — Present participle of decommunize.
  • 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.
  • decontaminate — To decontaminate something means to remove all germs or dangerous substances from it.
  • demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
  • democratizing — Present participle of democratize.
  • demonological — the study of demons or of beliefs about demons.
  • densitometric — Of or pertaining to densitometry.
  • deromanticize — to remove the romantic, ideal, or heroic aura from.
  • dichotomising — Present participle of dichotomise.
  • dichotomizing — Present participle of dichotomize.
  • dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
  • direct motion — the movement of a celestial body (as seen from the earth) from east to west across the sky
  • discomforting — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • discommission — (transitive) To deprive of a commission or trust.
  • 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.
  • discriminator — a person or thing that discriminates.
  • divine comedy — a narrative epic poem (14th century) by Dante.
  • dna computing — (architecture)   The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
  • doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
  • documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
  • documentarian — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
  • documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
  • documentation — the use of documentary evidence.
  • documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
  • domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • domiciliating — Present participle of domiciliate.
  • domiciliation — to domicile.
  • domino effect — the cumulative effect that results when one event precipitates a series of like events.
  • 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.
  • earned income — income from wages, salaries, fees, or the like, accruing from labor or services performed by the earner.
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