13-letter words containing c, n, s, t, i
- disconcertion — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
- disconformity — Geology. the surface of a division between parallel rock strata, indicating interruption of sedimentation: a type of unconformity.
- disconnecting — Present participle of disconnect.
- disconnection — the act of disconnecting.
- disconsolated — Obsolete form of disconsolate.
- discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
- discontiguity — the quality of being discontiguous
- discontiguous — disconnected or without contact
- discontinuing — Present participle of discontinue.
- discontinuity — lack of continuity; irregularity: The plot of the book was marred by discontinuity.
- discontinuous — not continuous; broken; interrupted; intermittent: a discontinuous chain of mountains; a discontinuous argument.
- 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.
- discriminants — Plural form of discriminant.
- discriminated — Simple past tense and past participle of discriminate.
- discriminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discriminate.
- discriminator — a person or thing that discriminates.
- disenchanting — Present participle of disenchant.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- disincentives — Plural form of disincentive.
- disinfectants — Plural form of disinfectant.
- disintoxicate — to free from intoxication or drunkenness
- disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- disrespecting — Present participle of disrespect.
- dissociations — Plural form of dissociation.
- distance race — a running race longer than 1500 meters (1635 yards).
- distinctively — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
- distractingly — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- divarications — Plural form of divarication.
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- 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.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- earth science — any of various sciences, as geography, geology, or meteorology, that deal with the earth, its composition, or any of its changing aspects.
- east germanic — a branch of the Germanic languages no longer extant, comprising Gothic and probably others of which there are no written records. Abbreviation: EGmc.
- echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
- ectosymbionts — Plural form of ectosymbiont.
- edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.
- educationists — Plural form of educationist.
- effectiveness — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- efficientness — The quality of being efficient; efficiency.
- eggs benedict — dish of poached eggs, ham and cream