13-letter words containing ic
- dendrological — Of, pertaining to dendrology.
- densification — the act of becoming or making more dense
- densitometric — Of or pertaining to densitometry.
- dental clinic — a school clinic in which minor dental work is carried out by dental nurses
- denticulation — a denticulate structure
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- deontological — (of an ethical theory) regarding obligation as deriving from reason or as residing primarily in certain specific rules of conduct rather than in the maximization of some good
- depoliticised — Simple past tense and past participle of depoliticise.
- depoliticized — Simple past tense and past participle of depoliticize.
- depoliticizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depoliticize.
- depressogenic — Causing or tending to cause depression.
- dermatotropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- deromanticize — to remove the romantic, ideal, or heroic aura from.
- deserticolous — living or growing in a desert.
- despicability — Despicableness.
- deterministic — Deterministic ideas or explanations are based on determinism.
- deuteroscopic — of or relating to deuteroscopy; of second sight
- device driver — (operating system) Software to control a hardware component or peripheral device of a computer such as a magnetic disk, magnetic tape or printer. A device driver is responsible for accessing the hardware registers of the device and often includes an interrupt handler to service interrupts generated by the device. Device drivers often form part of the lowest level of the operating system kernel, with which they are linked when the kernel is built. Some more recent systems have loadable device drivers which can be installed from files after the operating system is running.
- diacatholicon — an all-purpose remedy
- diacetic acid — acetoacetic acid.
- diagnosticate — (archaic, transitive) To make a diagnosis of; to recognise (a disease or similar) by its symptoms.
- diagnostician — a specialist or expert in making diagnoses
- dialectically — of, relating to, or of the nature of logical argumentation.
- diametrically — If you say that two things are diametrically opposed, you are emphasizing that they are completely different from each other.
- diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
- diaphragmatic — of the diaphragm.
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dichotomising — Present participle of dichotomise.
- dichotomistic — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomizing — Present participle of dichotomize.
- dichotomously — divided or dividing into two parts.
- dick size war — penis war
- dicloxacillin — A narrow-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotic of the penicillin class, used to treat infections caused by susceptible gram-positive bacteria.
- dictatorially — In a dictatorial manner.
- dictatorships — Plural form of dictatorship.
- dicyandiamide — a white, crystalline, rather sparingly water-soluble solid, C 2 H 4 N 4 , produced from cyanamide by polymerization: used in the manufacture of plastics and pharmaceuticals.
- diffeomorphic — (mathematics) Having a diffeomorphism.
- difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
- digby chicken — a smoked herring.
- digging stick — a pointed or spatulate wooden stick, sometimes having a stone weight or crossbar attached and used in primitive societies for loosening the ground to extract buried wild plant foods and for tilling the soil.
- digital logic — two-valued logic
- dignification — The act of dignifying; exaltation.
- digraphically — in a digraphic manner
- dioristically — in a dioristic manner
- diotheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
- diprotic acid — any acid with two hydrogen atoms in its molecule that are capable of being released or ionized in water, such as sulphuric acid and carbonic acid
- dipstick test — a test for detecting the presence of sugar in the urine, as in diabetes.
- disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
- disintoxicate — to free from intoxication or drunkenness
- disyllabicity — The state or characteristic of having two syllables.