13-letter words containing u, d, a, i
- documentarian — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- 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.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
- documentation — the use of documentary evidence.
- documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- domical vault — cloistered vault.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
- double-tailed — (of a lion) represented with two tails joined together next to the body.
- drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
- dramaturgical — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- dromaeosaurid — A carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of a late Cretaceous family that included deinonychus and the velociraptors. They had a large slashing claw on each hind foot.
- drum magazine — a receptacle that holds and feeds cartridges to a submachine gun or light machine gun.
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- dual alliance — the alliance between France and Russia (1890), strengthened by a military convention (1892–93) and lasting until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
- dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
- dual national — a person that has dual nationality
- dualistically — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
- duplicability — The quality of being duplicable.
- durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
- dutch auction — a method of auction consisting in the offer of a property at a price above the actual value and then at gradually reduced prices until a buyer is found.
- dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- dzibilchaltun — a large, ancient Mayan ceremonial and commercial center near Mérida, Mexico, founded perhaps as early as 3000 b.c. and in continuous use until the 16th century.
- educationally — pertaining to education.
- educationists — Plural form of educationist.
- ensanguinated — stained with blood
- equidistantly — In an equidistant manner or to an equidistant degree.
- equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
- equiponderate — To counterbalance.
- eta reduction — eta conversion
- eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
- excludability — The ability to be excluded.
- exhaustipated — Too tired to care about anything.
- exsanguinated — Simple past tense and past participle of exsanguinate.
- extrajudicial — (of a sentence) not legally authorized.
- extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
- fault-finding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
- feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
- fiddle around — waste time doing sth trivial
- fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
- figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.