13-letter words containing d, e, s, a, l, t
- dismantlement — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- disordinately — in a manner that lacks order
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
- distastefully — In a distasteful manner.
- 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.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
- donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- east flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1150 sq. mi. (2980 sq. km). Capital: Ghent.
- east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
- easter candle — a tall candle, symbolizing Christ, that is sometimes blessed and placed on the gospel side of an altar on Holy Saturday and kept burning until Ascension Day.
- easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
- easter-ledges — a pudding made from the young leaves of the bistort
- editorialists — Plural form of editorialist.
- editorializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of editorialize.
- elastoplasted — Covered with Elastoplast.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
- equidistantly — In an equidistant manner or to an equidistant degree.
- essentialized — Simple past tense and past participle of essentialize.
- exasperatedly — In an exasperated manner.
- false-hearted — having a false or treacherous heart; deceitful; perfidious.
- fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
- feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
- feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
- fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
- flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
- frosted glass — etched glass with a translucent surface
- galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
- gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
- half-deserted — (of a place) not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc
- half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
- heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
- hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
- hexadactylous — hexadactylic
- homestead law — any law exempting homesteads from seizure or sale for debt.
- household art — any of the skills necessary to the efficient running of a household, as cooking or keeping a family budget.
- hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- ideal crystal — a crystal in which there are no defects or impurities
- idealizations — Plural form of idealization.