13-letter words containing d
- acidification — The act or process of making something sour (acidifying), or changing into an acid.
- acidulousness — A state of or tendency toward being acidulous or somewhat sour or acid.
- acknowledging — Present participle of acknowledg.
- acotyledonous — Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.
- acoustic hood — a type of shield that fits around electronic and other equipment, which reduces the noise generated when that equipment is being used
- acquaintanced — Acquainted.
- acrylaldehyde — acrolein.
- action-packed — full of activities, events and excitement
- acute disease — disease that progresses rapidly
- ad referendum — subject to agreement by others and finalization of details
- adam's bridge — a chain of shoals in the Gulf of Mannar between NW Sri Lanka and SE India; ownership divided between Sri Lanka and India. 30 miles (48 km) long.
- adam's-needle — a North American liliaceous plant, Yucca filamentosa, that has a tall woody stem, stiff pointed leaves, and large clusters of white flowers arranged in spikes. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant
- adaptableness — The state or quality of being adaptable; adaptability.
- adder's-mouth — any of various orchids of the genus Malaxis that occur in all parts of the world except Australia and New Zealand and have small usually greenish flowers
- addictiveness — producing or tending to cause addiction: an addictive drug.
- additionality — (in Britain) the principle that money raised by the National Lottery should only be spent on projects that would not otherwise be funded by government spending
- additive-free — (of food) not containing any chemical additives
- address space — (operating system, architecture) The range of addresses which a processor or process can access, or at which a device can be accessed. The term may refer to either physical address or virtual address. The size of a processor's address space depends on the width of the processor's address bus and address registers. Each device, such as a memory integrated circuit, will have its own local address space which starts at zero. This will be mapped to a range of addresses which starts at some base address in the processor's address space. Similarly, each process will have its own address space, which may be all or a part of the processor's address space. In a multitasking system this may depend on where in memory the process happens to have been loaded. For a process to be able to run at any address it must consist of position-independent code. Alternatively, each process may see the same local address space, with the memory management unit mapping this to the process's own part of the processor's address space.
- addressograph — a machine for addressing envelopes, etc
- adenoidectomy — surgical removal of the adenoids
- adenopathies' — enlargement or disease of the glands, especially the lymphatic glands: a patient with prominent adenopathy. See also lymphadenopathy.
- adenosquamous — Having both glandular (adenoid) and squamous characteristics.
- adenylic acid — nucleotide consisting of adenine, ribose or deoxyribose, and a phosphate group
- adhesive tape — tape with an adhesive on one side that is used to join things or bind things
- adiabatically — in an adiabetic manner
- adjudications — Plural form of adjudication.
- adjustability — ability to adjust
- adjutant bird — either of two large carrion-eating storks, Leptoptilos dubius or L. javanicus, which are closely related and similar to the marabou and occur in S and SE Asia
- admeasurement — the act of admeasuring
- admensuration — Admeasurement.
- administerial — of or concerned with administration; administrative: administerial matters.
- administering — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
- administrable — able to be administered or managed
- administrador — (historical) A steward or official in various Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries.
- administrated — to administer.
- administrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of administrate.
- administrator — An administrator is a person whose job involves helping to organize and supervise the way that an organization or institution functions.
- administrivia — Administrative details that must be dealt with in order to do more interesting work.
- admirableness — admirability
- admiralty law — maritime law.
- admissibility — that may be allowed or conceded; allowable: an admissible plan.
- admission day — any of several legal holidays celebrated individually by certain states, commemorating their admission into the Union
- admonishingly — in an admonishing manner
- admonishments — Plural form of admonishment.
- adrenal gland — an endocrine gland at the anterior end of each kidney. Its medulla secretes adrenaline and noradrenaline and its cortex secretes several steroid hormones
- adrenalectomy — the surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands
- adularescence — (of certain gemstones, especially adularia) having a milky, bluish luster.
- adultolescent — a young adult or middle-aged person who has interests, traits, etc., that are usually associated with teenagers.
- adumbratively — In an adumbrative manner.
- advance guard — a military unit sent ahead of a main body to find gaps in enemy defences, clear away minor opposition, and prevent unexpected contact