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

  • copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
  • coup de grace — A coup de grace is an action or event which finally destroys something, for example an institution, which has been gradually growing weaker.
  • crepe bandage — a bandage made of light cotton crepe
  • crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
  • 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
  • custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
  • cut and paste — a technique used in word processing by which a section of text can be moved within a document
  • cut-and-paste — assembled or produced from various existing bits and pieces: The book purports to be a history but is just a cut-and-paste job of old essays and newspaper clippings.
  • 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
  • dance therapy — the use of dance or movement for therapeutic purposes; a form of therapy in which people are encouraged to express their feelings through dance or movement.
  • de-capitalize — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
  • death penalty — The death penalty is the punishment of death used in some countries for people who have committed very serious crimes.
  • decapitalised — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
  • decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.
  • decimal place — the position of a digit after the decimal point, each successive position to the right having a denominator of an increased power of ten
  • 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.
  • decrepitating — Present participle of decrepitate.
  • 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.
  • deemphasizing — Present participle of deemphasize.
  • deep-sea core — an intact sample of sediment extracted from the ocean floor by drilling with a long hollow tube.
  • demand paging — (memory management)   A kind of virtual memory where a page of memory will be paged in if an attempt is made to access it and it is not already present in main memory. This normally involves a memory management unit which looks up the virtual address in a page map to see if it is paged in. If it is not then the operating system will page it in, update the page map and restart the failed access. This implies that the processor must be able to recover from and restart a failed memory access or must be suspended while some other mechanism is used to perform the paging. Paging in a page may first require some other page to be moved from main memory to disk ("paged out") to make room. If this page has not been modified since it was paged in, it can simply be reused without writing it back to disk. This is determined from the "modified" or "dirty" flag bit in the page map. A replacement algorithm or policy is used to select the page to be paged out, often this is the least recently used (LRU) algorithm.
  • 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
  • dental plaque — a filmy deposit on the surface of a tooth consisting of a mixture of mucus, bacteria, food, etc
  • departure tax — Departure tax is a tax that airline passengers have to pay in order to use an airport.
  • depathologize — (transitive) To cease to treat as a medical disorder.
  • dependability — software reliability
  • 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.
  • deprecatingly — to express earnest disapproval of.
  • deprecatorily — In a deprecatory manner.
  • depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
  • deprivatizing — Present participle of deprivatize.
  • 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
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