13-letter words containing d, e, c, l, i, n
- deconflicting — Present participle of deconflict.
- deconfliction — The act or process of deconflicting.
- deconvolution — A process of resolving something into its constituent elements or removing complication in order to clarify it.
- decriminalise — Alternative spelling of decriminalize.
- decriminalize — When a criminal offence is decriminalized, the law changes so that it is no longer a criminal offence.
- deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- deducibleness — The quality of being deducible.
- deduplication — (computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
- delicatessens — Plural form of delicatessen.
- deliciousness — highly pleasing to the senses, especially to taste or smell: a delicious dinner; a delicious aroma.
- delinquencies — Plural form of delinquency.
- deliquescence — the process of deliquescing
- delirifacient — anything that causes or induces delirium
- demasculinise — Alternative spelling of demasculinize.
- demasculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).
- demonological — the study of demons or of beliefs about demons.
- dendrological — Of, pertaining to dendrology.
- dental caries — cavity formation in teeth caused by bacteria that attach to teeth and form acids in the presence of sucrose, other sugars, and refined starches; tooth decay.
- dental clinic — a school clinic in which minor dental work is carried out by dental nurses
- denticulation — a denticulate structure
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- denuclearized — Simple past tense and past participle of denuclearize.
- deontological — (of an ethical theory) regarding obligation as deriving from reason or as residing primarily in certain specific rules of conduct rather than in the maximization of some good
- deprecatingly — to express earnest disapproval of.
- desacralizing — Present participle of desacralize.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- dialling code — A dialling code for a particular city or region is the series of numbers that you have to dial before a particular telephone number if you are making a call to that place from a different area.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
- directionally — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- directionless — the act or an instance of directing.
- disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
- disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.
- disconsolated — Obsolete form of disconsolate.
- discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
- discounselled — lacking support or counsel
- discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
- disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- distinctively — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
- 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.
- double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
- double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- drilling crew — The drilling crew are the people who operate a drilling rig.
- dual alliance — the alliance between France and Russia (1890), strengthened by a military convention (1892–93) and lasting until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.