13-letter words containing y, n
- diphthongally — in a diphthongal manner
- directionally — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- dirty laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
- dirty old man — a mature or elderly man with lewd or obscene preoccupations.
- dirty weekend — A dirty weekend is a weekend during which two people go away together, mainly in order to have sex.
- dirty-laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
- disconformity — Geology. the surface of a division between parallel rock strata, indicating interruption of sedimentation: a type of unconformity.
- discontiguity — the quality of being discontiguous
- discontinuity — lack of continuity; irregularity: The plot of the book was marred by discontinuity.
- discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- discriminably — So as to be discriminable; distinguishably.
- disemployment — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
- disgruntledly — In a disgruntled manner.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- disinhibitory — (esp of a drug) causing temporary loss of inhibition
- disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
- disobediently — In a disobedient manner.
- disobligingly — So as to disoblige.
- disordinately — in a manner that lacks order
- disparagingly — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- dispiritingly — In a dispiriting manner.
- display panel — an electronic screen on which information can be displayed
- disponibility — Availability.
- dispraisingly — By way of dispraise.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disqualifying — Present participle of disqualify.
- disquietingly — causing anxiety or uneasiness; disturbing: disquieting news.
- dissatisfying — Present participle of dissatisfy.
- distinctively — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
- distortionary — an act or instance of distorting.
- distractingly — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distressingly — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- distrustingly — In a distrusting manner.
- divine comedy — a narrative epic poem (14th century) by Dante.
- divinyl ether — vinyl ether.
- 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.
- dodecylphenol — a thick, straw-colored, water-insoluble liquid mixture of isomers having the formula C 18 H 30 O, used chiefly as a solvent and as an intermediate for surface-active agents.
- 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.
- domineeringly — In a domineering manner.
- 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.
- donald cherry — Donald Eugene ("Don") 1936–95, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
- donkey engine — a small auxiliary engine, such as one used for pumping water into the boilers of a steamship
- donkey jacket — A donkey jacket is a thick, warm jacket, usually dark blue with a strip across the shoulders at the back.
- donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
- donor country — a country which provides aid to a developing country
- down syndrome — Down syndrome is a disorder that some people are born with. People who have Down syndrome have physical differences, such as shorter stature, and learning difficulties.
- downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
- drafting yard — a yard fenced into compartments for the holding and sorting of livestock.
- dry lightning — lightning produced by a thunderstorm that is unaccompanied by rain
- dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.