13-letter words containing s, p, e, c, d
- 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.
- decomposition — Decomposition is the process of decay that takes place when a living thing changes chemically after dying.
- decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
- decompression — Decompression is the reduction of the force on something that is caused by the weight of the air.
- deep discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
- deep-discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
- deep-sea core — an intact sample of sediment extracted from the ocean floor by drilling with a long hollow tube.
- depoliticised — Simple past tense and past participle of depoliticise.
- depoliticizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depoliticize.
- depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
- depressogenic — Causing or tending to cause depression.
- descriptively — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- descriptivism — the theory that moral utterances have a truth value
- descriptivist — a writer, teacher, or supporter of descriptive grammar or descriptive linguistics.
- descriptivity — The quality or state of being descriptive.
- despicability — Despicableness.
- deuteroscopic — of or relating to deuteroscopy; of second sight
- 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.
- dipleidoscope — an instrument that uses a telescope and a hollow prism to see when the sun crosses the meridian
- dipstick test — a test for detecting the presence of sugar in the urine, as in diabetes.
- direct speech — actual words spoken, not quoted or reported
- directorships — Plural form of directorship.
- 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.
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- discrepancies — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
- dispatch case — attaché case.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- disrespecting — Present participle of disrespect.
- disrespective — (obsolete) Showing a lack of respect; disrespectful.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- 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.
- encyclopedias — Plural form of encyclopedia.
- encyclopedism — Comprehensive learning or knowledge.
- encyclopedist — A person who writes, edits, or contributes to an encyclopedia.
- endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
- epicondylitis — A painful inflammation of tendons surrounding an epicondyle.
- escape device — a device with a collapsible extensible slide, used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- glycopeptides — Plural form of glycopeptide.
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- idealized csp — (language) A programming language combining simply typed, call-by-name procedures with asynchronous communicating processes, assuming fair parallel execution. Idealized CSP generalises Anthony Hoare's original CSP and Kahn's networks of deterministic processes, and is closely related to Parallel Algol by Stephen Brookes of CMU. Procedures permit the encapsulation of common protocols and parallel programming idioms. Local variables and local channel declarations provide a way to delimit the scope of interference between parallel agents, and allow a form of concurrent object-oriented programming.
- indiscerpible — (obsolete) Not discerpible; inseparable.
- indisciplined — Alternative form of undisciplined.