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13-letter words containing o, n, s, i

  • division ring — a ring in which the set of nonzero elements is a group with the operation of multiplication.
  • division sign — the symbol (÷) or (/) placed between two expressions and denoting division of the first by the second.
  • do-nothingism — the policy or practice of opposing a specific measure or change simply by refusing to consider or act on proposals; deliberate obstructionism.
  • doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
  • 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.
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
  • domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
  • domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • double vision — diplopia.
  • downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
  • downside risk — an estimate of the potential loss of value of an investment in a falling market
  • draft version — a preliminary version
  • dragon's tail — (formerly) the descending node of the moon or a planet.
  • dramatisation — Alternative spelling of dramatization.
  • dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
  • dressing down — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
  • dressing gown — a tailored robe worn for lounging or for grooming, applying makeup, etc.
  • dressing room — a room for use in getting dressed, especially one for performers backstage in a theater, television studio, etc.
  • dressing-down — a severe reprimand; scolding.
  • drinking song — a song of hearty character suitable for singing by a group engaged in convivial drinking.
  • 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 shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
  • duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
  • ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
  • duino elegies — a collection of ten poems (1923) by Rainer Maria Rilke.
  • durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
  • 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
  • dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
  • dysrationalia — The inability to think and behave rationally despite adequate intelligence.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • e-proposition — a universal negative proposition
  • early closing — shop closure at earlier hour
  • earth station — a terminal equipped to receive, or receive and transmit, signals from or to communications satellites.
  • easygoingness — The quality of being easygoing.
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • ectosymbionts — Plural form of ectosymbiont.
  • edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.
  • educationists — Plural form of educationist.
  • egregiousness — The quality of being egregious.
  • 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
  • emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.
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