13-letter words containing a, d, o, l, e, s
- costa del sol — coast region of S Spain, on the Mediterranean, east of Gibraltar: site of many resorts
- crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
- crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- dalton system — a method of progressive education whereby students contract to carry through on their own responsibility the year's work as divided up into monthly assignments.
- dame's violet — a Eurasian hairy perennial plant, Hesperis matronalis, cultivated in gardens for its mauve or white fragrant flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
- das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
- defloration's — the act of deflowering.
- deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
- delimitations — Plural form of delimitation.
- denationalise — Alternative spelling of denationalize.
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- depersonalise — Alternative spelling of depersonalize.
- depersonalize — To depersonalize a system or a situation means to treat it as if it did not really involve people, or to treat it as if the people involved were not really important.
- derealisation — Alternative form of derealization.
- dermatologies — Plural form of dermatology.
- dermatologist — A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in the study of skin and the treatment of skin diseases.
- dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
- desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- devotionalist — a devotee
- diabetologist — a person who studies diabetes
- dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- dieselization — The conversion of a petrol engine to run on diesel fuel.
- dimensionally — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
- disconsolated — Obsolete form of disconsolate.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disordinately — in a manner that lacks order
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
- dolman sleeve — a sleeve tapered from a very large armhole to fit closely at the wrist, used on women's garments.
- domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- 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.
- doppelgangers — Plural form of doppelganger.
- doppler laser — a technique for measuring the shift in frequency between the source and reflected radiation of a laser.
- double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
- dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.