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13-letter words containing p, a, e, d, o

  • crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
  • cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
  • cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
  • daguerreotype — one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
  • daguerreotypy — The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
  • daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
  • dairy produce — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • dance company — a group of dancers, usually including business and technical personnel
  • decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • deep-sea core — an intact sample of sediment extracted from the ocean floor by drilling with a long hollow tube.
  • demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • 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
  • depathologize — (transitive) To cease to treat as a medical disorder.
  • 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
  • deployability — Military. to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.
  • deprecatorily — In a deprecatory manner.
  • depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
  • deprotonation — (chemistry) The removal of a proton (hydrogen ion) from a molecule to form a conjugate base.
  • dermatography — a treatise or writing concerning the skin
  • dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
  • dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
  • dermatotropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
  • dermographism — dermatographia.
  • developmental — Developmental means relating to the development of someone or something.
  • diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
  • dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
  • diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
  • diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
  • diazo process — a method for printing on paper treated with a diazo compound that disintegrates upon exposure to light and developing the unexposed areas by the use of diazo dyes.
  • diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
  • diphenoxylate — a substance, C 30 H 32 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride in the treatment of diarrhea.
  • disceptatious — disputable
  • discographies — Plural form of discography.
  • dispassionate — free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
  • dispensations — Plural form of dispensation.
  • disreputation — disrepute.
  • dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
  • dolichocephal — a person with a head much longer than it is broad
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