13-letter words containing a, b, l, e, i
- demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- dependability — software reliability
- deployability — Military. to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.
- desirableness — The quality of being desirable.
- desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
- despicability — Despicableness.
- destabilising — Present participle of destabilise.
- destabilizing — Present participle of destabilize.
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- detachability — The quality of being detachable.
- detectability — the quality of being detectable
- deterrability — the quality of being deterrable
- detestability — The state or quality of being detestable.
- detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
- diabetologist — a person who studies diabetes
- digital badge — a title or icon associated with a user profile or account that attests to the attainment of a skill or rank or the completion of an objective, as on an educational or social media website or a gaming platform.
- direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
- disagreeables — annoying things
- disassembling — Present participle of disassemble.
- dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.
- discreditable — bringing or liable to bring discredit.
- discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
- discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
- dishabilitate — to disqualify
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disregardable — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
- double-tailed — (of a lion) represented with two tails joined together next to the body.
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- east berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
- east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
- ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
- eco-labelling — the practice or system of using eco-labels
- eff and blind — to use obscene language
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
- embryological — Of or pertaining to embryology.
- embryonically — In an embryonic way.
- employability — (uncountable) The state or quality of being employable.
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
- equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
- equilibration — The formation, or maintenance, of an equilibrium.