13-letter words containing d, a, n, u, s
- carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
- cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
- cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
- cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
- confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
- conquistadors — Plural form of conquistador.
- consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
- cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
- count towards — If something counts towards or counts toward an achievement or right, it is included as one of the things that give you the right to it.
- custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
- cut and paste — a technique used in word processing by which a section of text can be moved within a document
- cut-and-paste — assembled or produced from various existing bits and pieces: The book purports to be a history but is just a cut-and-paste job of old essays and newspaper clippings.
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- dangerousness — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
- dauntlessness — The characteristic of being dauntless; fearlessness.
- debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
- demasculinise — Alternative spelling of demasculinize.
- demasculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- denaturations — Plural form of denaturation.
- dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- denunciations — Plural form of denunciation.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
- disaster fund — a fund set up to relieve people or countries afflicted by a disaster
- 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.
- disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- disharmonious — inharmonious; discordant.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- disilluminate — to darken
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disqualifying — Present participle of disqualify.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- disreputation — disrepute.