13-letter words containing a, n, t, i, l
- demyelinating — Present participle of demyelinate.
- demyelination — The removal of the myelin sheath from a nerve fibre, normally as a result of disease.
- denationalise — Alternative spelling of denationalize.
- denationalize — To denationalize an industry or business means to transfer it into private ownership so that it is no longer owned and controlled by the state.
- denaturalized — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturalize.
- dental caries — cavity formation in teeth caused by bacteria that attach to teeth and form acids in the presence of sucrose, other sugars, and refined starches; tooth decay.
- dental clinic — a school clinic in which minor dental work is carried out by dental nurses
- dentalization — to change into or pronounce as a dental sound.
- denticulation — a denticulate structure
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- deontological — (of an ethical theory) regarding obligation as deriving from reason or as residing primarily in certain specific rules of conduct rather than in the maximization of some good
- dependability — software reliability
- dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
- deprecatingly — to express earnest disapproval of.
- derealisation — Alternative form of derealization.
- derealization — a symptom of various psychological and medical conditions, as well as a side-effect of certain treatments and drugs, whereby the world around one seems less real
- desert island — A desert island is a small tropical island, where nobody lives.
- desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
- destabilising — Present participle of destabilise.
- destabilizing — Present participle of destabilize.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- determinantal — of or relating to determinants
- determinately — having defined limits; definite.
- detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
- detrimentally — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
- devastatingly — tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- devotionalist — a devotee
- diacatholicon — an all-purpose remedy
- 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.
- dieselization — The conversion of a petrol engine to run on diesel fuel.
- differentials — Plural form of differential.
- 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
- dilapidations — Plural form of dilapidation.
- dilettanteish — Alternative form of dilettantish.
- dilettanteism — The condition of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
- dimethylamine — a colourless strong-smelling gas produced from ammonia and methanol, used to produce many industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals
- 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
- directionally — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- dirty laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
- dirty old man — a mature or elderly man with lewd or obscene preoccupations.
- dirty-laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
- discoloration — the act or fact of discoloring or the state of being discolored.
- disconsolated — Obsolete form of disconsolate.
- 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.