13-letter words containing d, a, t, l
- dirty old man — a mature or elderly man with lewd or obscene preoccupations.
- dirty realism — a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
- dirty-laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
- disaffiliated — Simple past tense and past participle of disaffiliate.
- disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
- disassimilate — to break down (a complex molecule or substance) into simple ones through catabolism
- discoloration — the act or fact of discoloring or the state of being discolored.
- disconsolated — Obsolete form of disconsolate.
- discreditable — bringing or liable to bring discredit.
- discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
- disentailment — The action of freeing property from entail.
- disentangling — Present participle of disentangle.
- disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- dishabilitate — to disqualify
- disilluminate — to darken
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disinthralled — freed from thraldom
- dismantlement — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- disobligation — the state of being without obligation
- disobligatory — not obligatory
- disordinately — in a manner that lacks order
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- displantation — the removal of a plantation
- disposability — designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up: disposable plastic spoons; a disposable cigarette lighter.
- dispositional — the predominant or prevailing tendency of one's spirits; natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristic attitude: a girl with a pleasant disposition.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- dissimilarity — unlikeness; difference.
- dissimilating — Present participle of dissimilate.
- dissimilation — the act of making or becoming unlike.
- dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
- dissimilatory — to modify by dissimilation.
- dissimulating — Present participle of dissimulate.
- dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
- distastefully — In a distasteful manner.
- distillations — Plural form of distillation.
- distractingly — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distress call — a prearranged communication code sign indicating that the sender is in a situation of peril, distress, or the like, as SOS, Mayday, etc. Compare distress signal (def 1).
- 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.
- distress sale — a sale held for the purpose of raising money to meet emergency expenses and usually offering goods at a substantial discount for the payment of cash.
- distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- disyllabicity — The state or characteristic of having two syllables.
- diverticulate — of or relating to a diverticulum
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
- dollarization — the conversion of a country's currency system into U.S. dollars.
- domical vault — cloistered vault.
- domiciliating — Present participle of domiciliate.
- domiciliation — to domicile.