13-letter words containing a, t, d, g
- disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disintegrated — Simple past tense and past participle of disintegrate.
- disintegrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disintegrate.
- disintegrator — One who, or that which, disintegrates.
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- disobligation — the state of being without obligation
- disobligatory — not obligatory
- disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- dissatisfying — Present participle of dissatisfy.
- disseminating — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissimilating — Present participle of dissimilate.
- dissimulating — Present participle of dissimulate.
- distractingly — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- 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.
- dna computing — (architecture) The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
- dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
- dogmatization — The process or result of dogmatizing.
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- domiciliating — Present participle of domiciliate.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- drafting yard — a yard fenced into compartments for the holding and sorting of livestock.
- draggletailed — untidy; bedraggled; slovenly.
- dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
- dragon's tail — (formerly) the descending node of the moon or a planet.
- drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
- dramaturgical — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- drilling mast — A drilling mast is a structure over an oil well which supports the drilling equipment and allows it to be lifted into and out of the wellbore.
- drip painting — a technique of abstract painting exemplified chiefly in the later works of Jackson Pollack and marked by the intricately executed dripping and pouring of the paint on a canvas placed on the floor.
- dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- earth-goddess — a goddess of fertility and vegetation.
- easter-ledges — a pudding made from the young leaves of the bistort
- eighth-grader — someone who is in the eighth grade at school
- ensanguinated — stained with blood
- estrangedness — the state of being estranged
- exaggeratedly — To an excessive degree; in an exaggerated manner.
- exsanguinated — Simple past tense and past participle of exsanguinate.
- fault-finding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- ferret badger — any of several small omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.
- fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
- fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
- first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.