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12-letter words containing y, n

  • dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
  • disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
  • diversifying — Present participle of diversify.
  • diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
  • dodecagynian — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
  • dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
  • dolly varden — a woman's costume of the late 19th century, including a flower-trimmed, broad-brimmed hat and a dress consisting of a tight bodice and bouffant panniers in a flower print over a calf-length quilted petticoat.
  • dominion day — Canada Day
  • donkey derby — a race in which contestants ride donkeys, esp at a rural fête
  • double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
  • down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
  • downy mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
  • draconically — (often lowercase) Draconian.
  • dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
  • drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
  • drinks party — a cocktail party
  • dry gangrene — death of tissue owing to arterial obstruction without subsequent bacterial decomposition and putrefaction.
  • dry mounting — the technique of fastening a print, photograph, or the like to a board by using a heated thermoplastic tissue as an adhesive.
  • dry puddling — puddling in a furnace with a bottom of sand.
  • dry-bone ore — a porous variety of smithsonite found near the surface of the earth.
  • dry-cleaning — Dry-cleaning is the action or work of dry-cleaning things such as clothes.
  • drying agent — A drying agent is used in an absorption column (= a tall vessel) to remove water from fractions.
  • duncan phyfe — of, relating to, or resembling the furniture made by Duncan Phyfe, especially the earlier pieces in the Sheraton and Directoire styles.
  • dunny budgie — a blowfly
  • duodenectomy — a complete or incomplete removal of the duodenum
  • duty manager — A duty manager is a person who is in charge at a particular time.
  • dye transfer — a photographic printing method by which a full-color image is produced by the printing of separate cyan, magenta, and yellow images from individual gelatin relief matrices.
  • dynamic dbms — dynamic database management system
  • dynamic html — (language, web)   (DHTML) The addition of JavaScript to HTML to allow web pages to change and interact with the user without having to communicate with the server. JavaScript allows the behaviour of the page to be controlled by code that is downloaded with the HTML. It does this by manipulating the Document Object Model (DOM). The term DHTML is often also taken to include the use of "style" information to give finer control of HTML layout. The style information can be supplied as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or as "style" attributes (which can be manipulated by JavaScript). Layers are often also used with DHTML. Both the JavaScript and style data can be included in the HTML file or in a separate file referred to from the HTML. Some web browsers allow other languages (e.g. VBScript or Perl) to be used instead of JavaScript but this is less common. DHTML can be viewed in Internet Explorer 4+, Firefox and Netscape Communicator 4+ but, as usual, Microsoft disagree on how DHTML should be implemented. The Document Object Model Group of the World Wide Web Consortium is developing standards for DHTML.
  • dynamic link — (compiler)   A pointer from an activation record to the activation record for the scope from which the current scope was called at run time. This is used in a statically scoped language to restore the environment pointer on exit from a scope. To access a non-local variable in a dynamically scoped language, dynamic links are followed until a binding for the given variable name is found.
  • dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
  • dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
  • dynastically — In a dynastic (or dynastical) way.
  • dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
  • dysfluencies — disfluency.
  • dysfunctions — Plural form of dysfunction.
  • dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
  • dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
  • early modern — designating or of the period of European history from the end of the Middle Ages (c. 1450) to c. 1750
  • east germany — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
  • easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
  • eccentricity — an oddity or peculiarity, as of conduct: an interesting man, known for his eccentricities.
  • echogenicity — (medical) The ability to create an echo that can be detected in an ultrasound examination.
  • eco-friendly — environmentally safe
  • economically — in a thrifty or frugal manner; with economy.
  • economy pack — a large pack of goods that is cheaper than a normal-sized pack
  • economy size — product: large, inexpensive
  • economy-size — larger in size and costing less per unit of measurement than a smaller size: an economy-size box of soap flakes.
  • ectosymbiont — (biology) A partner in a symbiotic relationship that remains on the surface of its host or occupies a body cavity.
  • ecumenically — general; universal.
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