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13-letter words containing r, i, d

  • cylinder seal — a cylindrical seal of stone, clay, or precious stone decorated with linear designs, found in the Middle East and Balkans: dating from about 6000 bc
  • cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
  • cylindrically — In the manner of a cylinder.
  • daily-breader — a commuter.
  • dairy factory — a factory making butter, cheese, lactose, etc from milk collected from surrounding farming areas
  • dairy farming — the business of farming to produce milk and milk products
  • dairy produce — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • danger signal — any type of signal that indicates danger
  • dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
  • danish pastry — Danish pastries are cakes made from sweet pastry. They are often filled with things such as apple or almond paste.
  • dare i say it — You use 'dare I say it' when you know that what you are going to say will disappoint or annoy someone.
  • dark internet — Also called dark Net, lost Net. the portion of the Internet that is hidden from search engines and cannot be accessed, as because the IP address is no longer working.
  • dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
  • darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
  • darling range — a ridge in SW Western Australia, parallel to the coast. Highest point: about 582 m (1669 ft)
  • darling river — a river in SE Australia, rising in the Eastern Highlands and flowing southwest to the Murray River. Length: 2740 km (1702 miles)
  • das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
  • dasht-i-kavir — a salt waste on the central plateau of Iran: a treacherous marsh beneath a salt crust
  • dastardliness — The state or quality of being dastardly.
  • data security — the protection of data stored on computers
  • data striping — (storage)   Segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be written to multiple physical devices (usually disk drives) in a round-robin fashion. This technique is useful if the processor is capable of reading or writing data faster than a single disk can supply or accept it. While data is being transferred from the first disk, the second disk can locate the next segment. Data striping is used in some modern databases, such as Sybase, and in certain RAID devices under hardware control, such as IBM's RAMAC array subsystem (9304/9395). Data striping is different from, and may be used in conjunction with, mirroring.
  • date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
  • daydreamingly — While daydreaming.
  • death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
  • deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
  • decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
  • decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
  • decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
  • decentralised — Simple past tense and past participle of decentralise.
  • decentralized — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
  • decentralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decentralize.
  • decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
  • decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
  • dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
  • decision tree — a treelike diagram illustrating the choices available to a decision maker, each possible decision and its estimated outcome being shown as a separate branch of the tree
  • decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
  • declaratively — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
  • decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
  • decompression — Decompression is the reduction of the force on something that is caused by the weight of the air.
  • decorticating — Present participle of decorticate.
  • decortication — the act or process of decorticating.
  • decrepitating — Present participle of decrepitate.
  • decrepitation — to roast or calcine (salt, minerals, etc.) so as to cause crackling or until crackling ceases.
  • decriminalise — Alternative spelling of decriminalize.
  • decriminalize — When a criminal offence is decriminalized, the law changes so that it is no longer a criminal offence.
  • deculturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
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