13-letter words containing c, a, s, o
- deep-sea core — an intact sample of sediment extracted from the ocean floor by drilling with a long hollow tube.
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- densification — the act of becoming or making more dense
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- denunciations — Plural form of denunciation.
- depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- diagnosticate — (archaic, transitive) To make a diagnosis of; to recognise (a disease or similar) by its symptoms.
- diagnostician — a specialist or expert in making diagnoses
- diazo process — a method for printing on paper treated with a diazo compound that disintegrates upon exposure to light and developing the unexposed areas by the use of diazo dyes.
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dictatorships — Plural form of dictatorship.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- dioristically — in a dioristic manner
- diplobacillus — a double bacillus; two bacilli linked end to end.
- dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
- disaccustomed — Simple past tense and past participle of disaccustom.
- disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
- disassociated — to dissociate.
- disassociates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disassociate.
- disceptatious — disputable
- disco dancing — dancing at a disco
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- 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.
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
- discovery day — Columbus Day.
- discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- discriminator — a person or thing that discriminates.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- disintoxicate — to free from intoxication or drunkenness
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- dissociations — Plural form of dissociation.
- divarications — Plural form of divarication.
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- document case — a flat, portable case, often of leather, for carrying papers, documents etc.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- dodecahedrons — Plural form of dodecahedron.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.