13-letter words containing d, a, i, r
- designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
- desirableness — The quality of being desirable.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- deteriorating — Become progressively worse.
- deterioration — the act or process of deteriorating.
- deteriorative — tending to deteriorate
- determinantal — of or relating to determinants
- determinately — having defined limits; definite.
- determinating — having defined limits; definite.
- determination — Determination is the quality that you show when you have decided to do something and you will not let anything stop you.
- determinative — able to or serving to settle or determine; deciding
- determinators — determiner (def 1).
- deterrability — the quality of being deterrable
- detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
- detrimentally — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
- deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
- devirgination — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- dextrocardiac — a person whose heart is on the right side of his or her chest
- diadem spider — a common Eurasian spider, Araneus diadematus, that constructs orb webs: family Argiopidae
- diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
- diametrically — If you say that two things are diametrically opposed, you are emphasizing that they are completely different from each other.
- diamond drill — a diamond-tipped drill
- diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
- diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
- diaphototropy — the state of being diaphototropic, turning transversely to the light
- diaphragmatic — of the diaphragm.
- diaphragmitis — inflammation of the diaphragm, phrenitis
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- diaz de bivar — Rodrigo [raw-th ree-gaw] /rɔˈðri gɔ/ (Show IPA), or Ruy [rwee] /rwi/ (Show IPA), Cid, The.
- díaz de vivar — Rodrigo (rɔˈðriɣo). the original name of El Cid
- 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.
- dick size war — penis war
- dictatorially — In a dictatorial manner.
- dictatorships — Plural form of dictatorship.
- dietary fiber — fiber (def 9).
- dietary fibre — fibrous substances in fruits and vegetables, such as the structural polymers of cell walls, consumption of which aids digestion and is believed to help prevent certain diseases
- diffarreation — (historical) A form of divorce, among the Ancient Romans, in which a cake was used.
- differentials — Plural form of differential.
- differentiate — to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
- diffractogram — An image produced by a diffractometer.
- digital frame — a picture frame containing an LCD screen that is used to display digital photos: Download pictures to your digital frame directly from your camera's memory card.
- digital meter — A digital meter is a meter that gives a separate reading, in the form of a decimal number, for each given input quantity.
- digital radio — electronic wireless transmission
- digitinervate — (of a leaf) having veins that radiate from the petiole like the fingers of a hand.
- digraphically — in a digraphic manner
- digressionary — Serving as a digression.
- dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
- dinitrogenase — (enzyme) One of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.