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13-letter words containing d, e, t, o

  • strong-minded — having a forceful and independent mind.
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • student union — a building or rooms on a college or university campus, set aside for recreational, social, and governmental activities of the students.
  • subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
  • superdominant — submediant.
  • superordinate — of higher degree in condition or rank.
  • sweated goods — goods that are made by exploited labour
  • sweet-toothed — having a strong liking for sweet foods
  • sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
  • syndesmectomy — excision of part of a ligament.
  • table--d-hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
  • take a powder — British Dialect. to rush.
  • take on board — be receptive
  • take the road — to begin a journey or tour
  • take to drink — If someone takes to drink, they start to drink a lot of alcohol regularly, usually because they are depressed or worried about something.
  • takeaway food — food which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
  • tandem roller — a type of road roller in which the front and back wheels consist of rollers of about the same diameter
  • tape recorder — an electrical device for recording or playing back sound, video, or data on magnetic tape.
  • task-oriented — focusing on the completion of particular tasks as a measure of success
  • taunton deane — a city in Somersetshire, in SW England.
  • tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
  • tax deduction — an expenditure that is deducted from taxable income.
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • technologized — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • teeing ground — tee2 (def 1a).
  • telediagnosis — the detection of a disease by evaluating data transmitted to a receiving station from instruments monitoring a distant patient, as someone in a spacecraft.
  • teledildonics — a technology supposedly enabling two or more people to engage in sexual activity remotely
  • telerecording — the recording of television signals on tape or, more usually, on film
  • tendency tone — a tone that is harmonically or melodically unstable and tends naturally to resolve itself either upward or downward.
  • terbium oxide — an amorphous white powder, Tb 2 O 3 .
  • tetartohedral — (of a crystal) having one fourth the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • tetradynamous — having four long and two short stamens, as a cruciferous flower.
  • tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
  • the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • the good life — If you say that someone is living the good life, you mean that they are living in comfort and luxury with few problems or worries.
  • the high road — the principal road from one place to another
  • the iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
  • the last word — final retort
  • the new world — the Americas; the western hemisphere
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