13-letter words containing d, e, u
- departure tax — Departure tax is a tax that airline passengers have to pay in order to use an airport.
- depressurized — Simple past tense and past participle of depressurize.
- depressurizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depressurize.
- depth sounder — an instrument for determining depths under water, especially under a ship.
- derequisition — to release from military to civilian use
- derived curve — a curve whose equation is the derivative of the equation of a given curve.
- desert locust — a migratory locust, Schistocerca gregaria, of North Africa and Asia, associated with the plagues described in the Old Testament.
- deserticolous — living or growing in a desert.
- designer drug — any of various narcotic or hallucinogenic substances manufactured illegally from a range of chemicals
- destituteness — The state or quality of being destitute.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- destructively — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- destructivism — the theory that a part of a whole may be considered a principle part if the destruction of that part would lead to the destruction of the whole
- destructivist — a person who holds to the theory of destructivism
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- desultoriness — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
- deuteranomaly — a milder form of deuteranopia; partial deuteranopia
- deuteromycete — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
- deuteronomist — one of the writers of Deuteronomy
- deuteroscopic — of or relating to deuteroscopy; of second sight
- deuterostomes — Plural form of deuterostome.
- deutocerebrum — (zoology) The median lobes of the brain of an insect.
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- dexterousness — The state or quality of being dexterous.
- dextroglucose — dextrose
- dhu el-hijjah — Islam. the twelfth month of the Muslim calendar, in leap year containing one extra day.
- dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dien bien phu — a town in NW Vietnam: site of defeat of French forces by Vietminh 1954, bringing to an end the French rule of Indochina.
- difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
- diffusiveness — The state or quality of being diffusive.
- direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
- disaccustomed — Simple past tense and past participle of disaccustom.
- disambiguated — Simple past tense and past participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disambiguate.
- disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
- disaster fund — a fund set up to relieve people or countries afflicted by a disaster
- disburdenment — The removal of a burden; an unburdening.
- disbursements — Plural form of disbursement.
- disceptatious — disputable
- discomycetous — of or relating to the subclass of fungus Discomycetes
- discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
- discounselled — lacking support or counsel
- discount rate — the rate of interest charged in discounting commercial paper.
- discourtesies — Plural form of discourtesy.
- disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.