13-letter words containing d, c, s
- 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.
- 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.
- discounselled — lacking support or counsel
- 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.
- discourtesies — Plural form of discourtesy.
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
- discovery day — Columbus Day.
- discreditable — bringing or liable to bring discredit.
- discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
- discrepancies — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
- discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
- discriminably — So as to be discriminable; distinguishably.
- 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.
- disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
- disfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of disfranchise.
- disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
- disincentives — Plural form of disincentive.
- disinfectants — Plural form of disinfectant.
- disintoxicate — to free from intoxication or drunkenness
- disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
- disk capacity — the maximum number of bytes that can be held on a disk
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- dispatch case — attaché case.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- disrespecting — Present participle of disrespect.
- disrespective — (obsolete) Showing a lack of respect; disrespectful.
- 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.
- 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).
- disyllabicity — The state or characteristic of having two syllables.
- divarications — Plural form of divarication.
- do justice to — to show to full advantage
- 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.