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13-letter words containing o, h, r, i

  • directorships — Plural form of directorship.
  • discographies — Plural form of discography.
  • disharmonious — inharmonious; discordant.
  • disharmonized — Simple past tense and past participle of disharmonize.
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
  • disinhibitory — (esp of a drug) causing temporary loss of inhibition
  • divine mother — the creative, dynamic aspect of the Godhead, the consort or Shakti of Brahma, Vishnu, or Shiva, variously known as Devi, Durga, Kālī, Shakti, etc.
  • dolichocranic — dolichocephalic.
  • dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
  • dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
  • domain theory — (theory)   A branch of mathematics introduced by Dana Scott in 1970 as a mathematical theory of programming languages, and for nearly a quarter of a century developed almost exclusively in connection with denotational semantics in computer science. In denotational semantics of programming languages, the meaning of a program is taken to be an element of a domain. A domain is a mathematical structure consisting of a set of values (or "points") and an ordering relation, <= on those values. Domain theory is the study of such structures. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq) Different domains correspond to the different types of object with which a program deals. In a language containing functions, we might have a domain X -> Y which is the set of functions from domain X to domain Y with the ordering f <= g iff for all x in X, f x <= g x. In the pure lambda-calculus all objects are functions or applications of functions to other functions. To represent the meaning of such programs, we must solve the recursive equation over domains, D = D -> D which states that domain D is (isomorphic to) some function space from D to itself. I.e. it is a fixed point D = F(D) for some operator F that takes a domain D to D -> D. The equivalent equation has no non-trivial solution in set theory. There are many definitions of domains, with different properties and suitable for different purposes. One commonly used definition is that of Scott domains, often simply called domains, which are omega-algebraic, consistently complete CPOs. There are domain-theoretic computational models in other branches of mathematics including dynamical systems, fractals, measure theory, integration theory, probability theory, and stochastic processes. See also abstract interpretation, bottom, pointed domain.
  • domino theory — a theory that if one country is taken over by an expansionist, especially Communist, neighbor, party, or the like, the nearby nations will be taken over one after another.
  • doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
  • dorothy dixer — a parliamentary question asked by a member of the government so that the minister may give a prepared answer
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
  • drink to that — People say 'I'll drink to that' to show that they agree with and approve of something that someone has just said.
  • drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
  • drongo shrike — any insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics, having a glossy black plumage, a forked tail, and a stout bill
  • drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
  • drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
  • dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
  • earth station — a terminal equipped to receive, or receive and transmit, signals from or to communications satellites.
  • echoic memory — the ability to recapture the exact impression of a sound shortly after the sound has finished
  • electrochemic — electrochemical
  • electrophiles — Plural form of electrophile.
  • electrophilic — (of a molecule or group) having a tendency to attract or acquire electrons.
  • electrophonic — Relating to electronic equipment to produce sound (this adjectival sense is not comparable).
  • enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
  • enantiomorphy — the state of being enantiomorphic
  • endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
  • enterohepatic — Relating to or denoting the circulation of bile salts and other secretions from the liver to the intestine, where they are reabsorbed into the blood and returned to the liver.
  • enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
  • epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
  • epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
  • eproctophilia — Sexual arousal from flatulence.
  • ergatomorphic — pertaining to an ergatomorph
  • erin go bragh — Ireland forever
  • erythrophobia — Abnormal and persistent fear of blushing.
  • esthesiometer — an instrument for measuring the sensitivity of the sense of touch, esp. one for testing how far apart two points pressed against the skin have to be for the points to be felt as separate
  • ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
  • ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
  • ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
  • ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
  • event horizon — the surface around a black hole enclosing the space from which electromagnetic radiation cannot escape due to gravitational attraction. For a non-rotating black hole, the radius is proportional to the mass of the black hole
  • exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
  • exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
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