13-letter words containing p, a, e
- 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
- dermatotropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- desperateness — reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency: a desperate killer.
- despicability — Despicableness.
- dessert apple — an eating apple; an apple that can be eaten raw
- developmental — Developmental means relating to the development of someone or something.
- diadem spider — a common Eurasian spider, Araneus diadematus, that constructs orb webs: family Argiopidae
- 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.
- digitipinnate — (of a compound leaf) digitate with pinnate leaflets.
- diphenoxylate — a substance, C 30 H 32 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride in the treatment of diarrhea.
- diphenylamine — a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble benzene derivative, C 12 H 11 N, used chiefly in the preparation of various dyes, as a stabilizer for nitrocellulose propellants, and for the detection of oxidizing agents in analytical chemistry.
- disapparelled — undressed; naked
- disappearance — the act or an instance of disappearing; a ceasing to be seen or to exist.
- discapacitate — to incapacitate (a person)
- disceptatious — disputable
- disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.