13-letter words containing d, e, t, n, s
- estrangedness — the state of being estranged
- eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
- expeditionist — (rare) One who goes on an expedition.
- exsanguinated — Simple past tense and past participle of exsanguinate.
- fatheadedness — The quality of being fatheaded.
- festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
- fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
- fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour) A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
- first edition — the whole number of copies of a literary work printed first, from the same type, and issued together.
- first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
- foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
- fort donelson — Fort Donelson.
- fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
- gentisic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble compound, C 7 H 6 O 4 , used chiefly in the form of its sodium salt as an analgesic and diaphoretic.
- ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
- gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
- gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
- go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
- godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
- good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry
- gordon setter — one of a Scottish breed of medium-sized setters having a black-and-tan coat.
- gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
- ground stroke — a stroke made by hitting the ball after it has bounced from the ground. Compare volley (def 4b).
- groundstrokes — Plural form of groundstroke.
- hand-stitched — stitched by hand rather than by a machine
- harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
- heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
- herd instinct — the impulse or tendency toward clustering or acting in a group, especially the presumed instinct toward or need for gregariousness and conformity.
- hereditaments — Plural form of hereditament.
- hereditarians — Plural form of hereditarian.
- herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
- honest to god — real or genuine.
- honest-to-god — real or genuine.
- horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
- horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- hotheadedness — The state or characteristic of being hotheaded; the tendency to be easily infuriated or provoked.
- house-trained — housebroken.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- idealizations — Plural form of idealization.
- identicalness — The state or quality of being identical.
- identity disc — a disc bearing details that serve to identify its wearer
- identity sign — the symbol (≡), designating identity, not equality.
- idiomaticness — Idiomaticity.
- immediateness — The state of being immediate; immediacy.
- in despite of — in spite of
- in sb's stead — If you do something in someone's stead, you replace them and do it instead of them.