13-letter words containing n, o, s, a, c
- disintoxicate — to free from intoxication or drunkenness
- dissociations — Plural form of dissociation.
- divarications — Plural form of divarication.
- 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.
- dodecahedrons — Plural form of dodecahedron.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- dual controls — If a vehicle used by a driving instructor has dual controls, it has pedals on the passenger's side as well as on the driver's side to allow the driving instructor to brake should the learner try to move off when it is dangerous to do so
- 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.
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- early closing — shop closure at earlier hour
- economy class — a low-priced type of accommodation for travel, especially on an airplane.
- ectocommensal — Biology. (of an organism) living in a commensal relationship on the exterior of another organism.
- educationists — Plural form of educationist.
- ejection seat — a seat, esp as fitted to military aircraft, that is fired by a cartridge or rocket to eject the occupant from the aircraft in an emergency
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- eleanor cross — any of the crosses erected at each place where the body of Eleanor of Castile (1246–90, Edward I's Spanish wife) rested between Nottingham (where she died) and London (where she is buried)
- emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.
- encapsulation — The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
- encomiastical — Alternative form of encomiastic.
- encompassable — Capable of being encompassed.
- encompassment — The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded.
- encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
- encrustations — Plural form of encrustation.
- encyclopedias — Plural form of encyclopedia.
- endocommensal — a commensal living within the body of the host organism
- endonucleases — Plural form of endonuclease.
- endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
- entomostracan — any small crustacean of the group (formerly subclass) Entomostraca, including the branchiopods, ostracods, and copepods
- episcopalians — Plural form of episcopalian.
- equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
- equivocations — Plural form of equivocation.
- escort agency — an agency where people, esp young women, may be hired to accompany someone for entertainment, etc
- eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
- evocativeness — The state or condition of being evocative.
- exacerbations — Plural form of exacerbation.
- facetiousness — (uncountable) The state of being facetious.
- factorisation — Alternative spelling of factorization.
- false economy — an attempt to save money which actually leads to greater expense
- falsification — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- fantasmagoric — phantasmagoria.
- fasciculation — a fascicular condition.
- fat electrons — (electronics, humour) Old-time hacker David Cargill's theory on the cause of computer glitches. Your typical electricity company draws its line current out of the big generators with a pair of coil taps located near the top of the dynamo. When the normal tap brushes get dirty, they take them off line to clean them up, and use special auxiliary taps on the *bottom* of the coil. Now, this is a problem, because when they do that they get not ordinary or "thin" electrons, but the fat sloppy electrons that are heavier and so settle to the bottom of the generator. These flow down ordinary wires just fine, but when they have to turn a sharp corner (as in an integrated-circuit via), they're apt to get stuck. This is what causes computer glitches. Compare bogon, magic smoke.
- felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.