13-letter words containing a, l, t, i, e, s
- dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
- dieselization — The conversion of a petrol engine to run on diesel fuel.
- differentials — Plural form of differential.
- dilettanteish — Alternative form of dilettantish.
- dilettanteism — The condition of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
- dirty realism — a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
- disaffiliated — Simple past tense and past participle of disaffiliate.
- disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
- disassimilate — to break down (a complex molecule or substance) into simple ones through catabolism
- disconsolated — Obsolete form of disconsolate.
- discreditable — bringing or liable to bring discredit.
- discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
- disentailment — The action of freeing property from entail.
- disentangling — Present participle of disentangle.
- disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- dishabilitate — to disqualify
- disilluminate — to darken
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disinthralled — freed from thraldom
- dismantlement — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- disordinately — in a manner that lacks order
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
- distastefully — In a distasteful manner.
- distress call — a prearranged communication code sign indicating that the sender is in a situation of peril, distress, or the like, as SOS, Mayday, etc. Compare distress signal (def 1).
- distress flag — any flag flown by a vessel to show that it is in distress, as an ensign flown at half-mast or upside down.
- distress sale — a sale held for the purpose of raising money to meet emergency expenses and usually offering goods at a substantial discount for the payment of cash.
- distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- 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.
- 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.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- ear-splitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- 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).
- east malaysia — part of Malaysia, consisting of the states of Sabah and Sarawak, which occupy the N part of the island of Borneo
- easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
- ecclesiastics — a member of the clergy or other person in religious orders.
- ecclesiolatry — excessive reverence for churchly forms and traditions.
- editorialists — Plural form of editorialist.
- editorializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of editorialize.
- egotistically — In an egotistic manner.
- elastic limit — the greatest stress that can be applied to a material without causing permanent deformation
- electrostatic — Of or relating to stationary electric charges or fields as opposed to electric currents.
- elephant fish — a large marine fish, Callorhinchus milii, of southwest Pacific waters, having a snout resembling an elephant's trunk
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- elephantiasis — A condition in which a limb or other part of the body becomes grossly enlarged due to obstruction of the lymphatic vessels, typically by the nematode parasites that cause filariasis.
- emotionalists — Plural form of emotionalist.
- emotionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emotionalize.