13-letter words containing a, n, t, e, p
- digitipinnate — (of a compound leaf) digitate with pinnate leaflets.
- diphenoxylate — a substance, C 30 H 32 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride in the treatment of diarrhea.
- disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- disparateness — The degree to which a thing is disparate.
- dispassionate — free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
- dispensations — Plural form of dispensation.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- disreputation — disrepute.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- donnan uptake — The Donnan uptake is the uptake of an electrolyte (= a substance which electricity can pass through) as a neutral pair of ions during a sorption process.
- draftspersons — Plural form of draftsperson.
- ear-splitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- earl palatine — count palatine (def 2).
- east pakistan — former name of Bangladesh.
- east paterson — former name of Elmwood Park (def 2).
- east prussian — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- elephant fish — a large marine fish, Callorhinchus milii, of southwest Pacific waters, having a snout resembling an elephant's trunk
- elephant seal — either of two large earless seals, Mirounga leonina of southern oceans or M. angustirostris of the N Atlantic, the males of which have a long trunklike snout
- 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.
- emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.
- enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
- enantiomorphy — the state of being enantiomorphic
- enantiotropic — relating to enantiotropy
- encapsulating — Present participle of encapsulate.
- encapsulation — The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
- encephalotomy — The dissection of the brain.
- encompassment — The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded.
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
- endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
- endopeptidase — An enzyme that breaks peptide bonds other than terminal ones in a peptide chain.
- enhypostatize — to come together in one person or hypostasis
- enterohepatic — Relating to or denoting the circulation of bile salts and other secretions from the liver to the intestine, where they are reabsorbed into the blood and returned to the liver.
- enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
- entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
- entrance ramp — a short road connecting a motorway, etc, to another road
- epidotization — the process of changing into epidote
- epinastically — in an epinastic manner
- epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
- equipartition — the equal division of the energy of a system in thermal equilibrium between different degrees of freedom. This principle was assumed to be exact in classical physics, but quantum theory shows that it is true only in certain special cases
- equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
- equiponderate — To counterbalance.
- equipotential — (of a surface or line ) composed of points all at the same potential.
- eta expansion — eta conversion
- ethnographers — Plural form of ethnographer.
- ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
- ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
- ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
- european toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans, the male of which carries the fertilized eggs on its hind legs until they hatch: family Discoglossidae