13-letter words containing p, m, a
- deemphasizing — Present participle of deemphasize.
- 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.
- dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
- 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.
- 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
- diamond point — a diamond-tipped engraving tool
- diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
- diaphragmatic — of the diaphragm.
- diaphragmitis — inflammation of the diaphragm, phrenitis
- 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.
- diplomatology — diplomatics as a subject of scientific study
- dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
- disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- dna computing — (architecture) The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- draftsmanship — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, as of machines, structures, etc.
- drama therapy — a type of psychotherapy encouraging patients to use dramatic techniques to deal with emotional and psychological problems.
- drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- 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.
- dyslipidaemia — Alternative spelling of dyslipidemia.
- eccremocarpus — any plant of the evergreen climbing genus Eccremocarpus, esp E. scaber, grown for its decorative pinnate foliage and bright orange-red bell flowers: family Bignoniaceae
- emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.
- emphysematous — (medicine) Related, similar to or involving emphysema; swollen, bloated.
- empiricalness — Quality of being empirical.
- employability — (uncountable) The state or quality of being employable.
- empty quarter — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
- empyreumatise — to render empyreumatic
- empyreumatize — to infect or spoil with empyreuma
- enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
- enantiomorphy — the state of being enantiomorphic
- encephalogram — An image, trace, or other record of the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
- encephalotomy — The dissection of the brain.
- encompassable — Capable of being encompassed.
- encompassment — The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded.
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
- entrance ramp — a short road connecting a motorway, etc, to another road
- ephemeralness — The quality of being ephemeral or transitory.
- epigrammatism — The use of epigrams; epigrammatical character.
- epigrammatist — Someone who writes an epigram (any meanings).