13-letter words containing da
- dead-beat dad — a father who neglects his responsibilities as a parent, esp. one who does not pay child support to his estranged wife.
- defendability — (uncountable) The condition of being defendable.
- degradability — susceptible to chemical breakdown.
- degradational — (geology) Pertaining to or formed by degradation.
- demimondaines — Plural form of demimondaine.
- dependability — software reliability
- desk calendar — a loose-leaf calendar containing one or two pages for each day, with spaces for notes.
- dilapidations — Plural form of dilapidation.
- disco dancing — dancing at a disco
- discovery day — Columbus Day.
- disregardable — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- domesday book — a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
- doomsday book — Domesday Book.
- doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
- doppler radar — a radar tracking system that determines the velocity of a moving object by measuring the Doppler shift of the frequency of a radar signal reflected by the object.
- double dagger — a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
- dyslipidaemia — Alternative spelling of dyslipidemia.
- easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
- easter sunday — Easter (def 2).
- edam (cheese) — a mild, yellow cheese, made in a round mold and usually having a coating of red paraffin
- endopeptidase — An enzyme that breaks peptide bonds other than terminal ones in a peptide chain.
- english daisy — a small perennial plant (Bellis perennis) of the composite family, having single stalked heads with white or pinkish ray flowers
- epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
- eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
- excludability — The ability to be excluded.
- exotic dancer — a striptease dancer or belly dancer
- expandability — (uncountable) The condition of being expandable.
- expendability — The state or quality of being expendable.
- extendability — Extensibility.
- extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
- feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
- feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
- five-day week — a system in which people work for five days in every seven
- fondant icing — icing made from fondant
- foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
- formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- fortran-linda — Scientific Computer Assocs <[email protected]>.
- foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- french canada — the areas of Canada, esp in the province of Quebec, where French Canadians predominate
- fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
- gelada baboon — a NE African baboon, Theropithecus gelada, with dark brown hair forming a mane over the shoulders, a bare red chest, and a ridged muzzle: family Cercopithecidae
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- gold standard — a monetary system with gold of specified weight and fineness as the unit of value.
- good old days — past times viewed with nostalgia
- good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- grandad shirt — a long-sleeved collarless shirt
- granddaughter — a daughter of one's son or daughter.
- great daedala — either of two festivals held in ancient Boeotia in honor of the reconciliation of Hera with Zeus, one (Little Daedala) being held every 6 years, the other (Great Daedala) every 59 years.