13-letter words containing a, n, o
- dialling tone — The dialling tone is the noise which you hear when you pick up a telephone receiver and which means that you can dial the number you want.
- diamond drill — a diamond-tipped drill
- diamond point — a diamond-tipped engraving tool
- diamond snake — a python, Morelia argus, of Australia and New Guinea, with yellow diamond-shaped markings
- diamond state — Delaware (used as a nickname).
- diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- diazotization — the preparation of a diazonium salt by treatment of an arylamine with nitrous acid.
- dicloxacillin — A narrow-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotic of the penicillin class, used to treat infections caused by susceptible gram-positive bacteria.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- dieselization — The conversion of a petrol engine to run on diesel fuel.
- diffarreation — (historical) A form of divorce, among the Ancient Romans, in which a cake was used.
- digital fount — a typeface of which the letter-shapes have been converted into digital form so that they can be used in computer-aided typesetting
- dignification — The act of dignifying; exaltation.
- digressionary — Serving as a digression.
- diiodomethane — methylene iodide.
- dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
- dilapidations — Plural form of dilapidation.
- 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.
- dinitrogenase — (enzyme) One of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.
- dinoturbation — the effect or process of trampling and major disturbance to sedimentary rock layers caused by the movement of dinosaurs
- diphenoxylate — a substance, C 30 H 32 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride in the treatment of diarrhea.
- diphthongally — in a diphthongal manner
- dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
- direct action — any action seeking to achieve an immediate or direct result, especially an action against an established authority or powerful institution, as a strike or picketing.
- directionally — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- dirty old man — a mature or elderly man with lewd or obscene preoccupations.
- disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
- disappointing — failing to fulfill one's hopes or expectations: a disappointing movie; a disappointing marriage.
- disaster zone — area affected by a catastrophe
- disco dancing — dancing at a disco
- discoloration — the act or fact of discoloring or the state of being discolored.
- disconsolated — Obsolete form of disconsolate.
- discordianism — (recreation) /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ The veneration of Eris, also known as Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularised by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Illuminatus!" as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners - it should on no account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from "Principia Discordia": "A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads." Discordianism is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati. See Religion, Church of the SubGenius, and ha ha only serious.
- discount card — a card that entitles the holder to buy goods from a seller at a discount
- discount rate — the rate of interest charged in discounting commercial paper.
- discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- discriminator — a person or thing that discriminates.
- disestimation — the act of having esteem removed
- disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- disharmonious — inharmonious; discordant.
- disharmonized — Simple past tense and past participle of disharmonize.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- disintegrator — One who, or that which, disintegrates.
- disintoxicate — to free from intoxication or drunkenness
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- disobligation — the state of being without obligation
- disordinately — in a manner that lacks order