13-letter words containing t, y, r, o
- cryptoxanthin — a carotenoid pigment, C40H56O, in butter, eggs, and various plants, that can be converted into vitamin A in the body
- cryptozoology — the study of creatures, such as the Loch Ness monster, whose existence has not been scientifically proved
- crystalloidal — Relating to a crystalloid.
- cyanoacrylate — a substance with an acrylate base, usually sold in the form of a quick-setting highly adhesive glue
- cyanobacteria — a group of photosynthetic bacteria (phylum Cyanobacteria) containing a blue photosynthetic pigment
- cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
- cyclostrophic — pertaining to atmospheric motion in which the centripetal acceleration exactly balances the horizontal pressure force.
- cysticercosis — a parasitic infection of tissue by the larval form of the pork tapeworm, Taenia Solium, contracted through the ingestion of food or water contaminated by faeces, or by eating infected pork
- cytochemistry — the chemistry of living cells
- cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
- dactylography — the scientific study of fingerprints for purposes of identification
- 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 factory — a factory making butter, cheese, lactose, etc from milk collected from surrounding farming areas
- decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).
- decarboxylate — to take away a carboxyl group from (an organic compound) or (of an organic compound) to lose a carboxyl group
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- dehydrogenate — to remove hydrogen from
- deleteriously — In a deleterious manner; harmfully.
- delivery note — a document that accompanies a delivery of goods
- demonstratory — having the quality of demonstrating
- deprecatorily — In a deprecatory manner.
- dermatography — a treatise or writing concerning the skin
- dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
- dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
- deuteranomaly — a milder form of deuteranopia; partial deuteranopia
- deuteromycete — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- diaphototropy — the state of being diaphototropic, turning transversely to the light
- dictatorially — In a dictatorial manner.
- dioristically — in a dioristic manner
- directionally — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- directorially — In terms of film direction.
- dirty old man — a mature or elderly man with lewd or obscene preoccupations.
- disconformity — Geology. the surface of a division between parallel rock strata, indicating interruption of sedimentation: a type of unconformity.
- discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- disinhibitory — (esp of a drug) causing temporary loss of inhibition
- disobligatory — not obligatory
- disordinately — in a manner that lacks order
- dissimilatory — to modify by dissimilation.
- distortionary — an act or instance of distorting.
- documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- dolly mixture — a mixture of small coloured sweets
- domain theory — (theory) A branch of mathematics introduced by Dana Scott in 1970 as a mathematical theory of programming languages, and for nearly a quarter of a century developed almost exclusively in connection with denotational semantics in computer science. In denotational semantics of programming languages, the meaning of a program is taken to be an element of a domain. A domain is a mathematical structure consisting of a set of values (or "points") and an ordering relation, <= on those values. Domain theory is the study of such structures. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq) Different domains correspond to the different types of object with which a program deals. In a language containing functions, we might have a domain X -> Y which is the set of functions from domain X to domain Y with the ordering f <= g iff for all x in X, f x <= g x. In the pure lambda-calculus all objects are functions or applications of functions to other functions. To represent the meaning of such programs, we must solve the recursive equation over domains, D = D -> D which states that domain D is (isomorphic to) some function space from D to itself. I.e. it is a fixed point D = F(D) for some operator F that takes a domain D to D -> D. The equivalent equation has no non-trivial solution in set theory. There are many definitions of domains, with different properties and suitable for different purposes. One commonly used definition is that of Scott domains, often simply called domains, which are omega-algebraic, consistently complete CPOs. There are domain-theoretic computational models in other branches of mathematics including dynamical systems, fractals, measure theory, integration theory, probability theory, and stochastic processes. See also abstract interpretation, bottom, pointed domain.
- domino theory — a theory that if one country is taken over by an expansionist, especially Communist, neighbor, party, or the like, the nearby nations will be taken over one after another.
- donor country — a country which provides aid to a developing country
- dorothy dixer — a parliamentary question asked by a member of the government so that the minister may give a prepared answer
- downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
- dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.