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13-letter words containing d, i, a, s, t

  • standing army — a permanently organized military force maintained by a nation.
  • standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
  • standing crop — the totality of living things in an ecosystem at a given time.
  • standing joke — If something is a standing joke among a group of people, they often make jokes about it.
  • standing jump — a jump performed from a stationary position without a run-up
  • standing room — space in which to stand, as in a theater, stadium, or the like.
  • standing wave — a wave in a medium in which each point on the axis of the wave has an associated constant amplitude ranging from zero at the nodes to a maximum at the antinodes.
  • stannic oxide — a white, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, SnO 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramic glazes and glass, and of polishing powders for metal, glass, and marble.
  • star of david — Judaism: six-pointed star
  • stare decisis — the doctrine that rules or principles of law on which a court rested a previous decision are authoritative in all future cases in which the facts are substantially the same.
  • starting grid — area marked as start of a race
  • state of mind — mental condition, mood
  • staten island — an island facing New York Bay.
  • status indian — a member of any of the numerous indigenous groups registered as Indians under the federal Indian Act, having special rights and privileges and usually living on a reservation.
  • still and all — remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
  • straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
  • stringer bead — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • striped maple — a maple, Acer pensylvanicum, of northeastern North America, having white-striped bark.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • subderivative — a word derived from a derivative.
  • subindication — the act or process of subindicating
  • subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
  • subordination — the act of placing in a lower rank or position: The refusal to allow women to be educated was part of society's subordination of women to men.
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subsidization — to furnish or aid with a subsidy.
  • substantiated — to establish by proof or competent evidence: to substantiate a charge.
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
  • superdominant — submediant.
  • superordinate — of higher degree in condition or rank.
  • sweat-stained — (of clothes or fabric) bearing the marks left by a person's sweat
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
  • syrian desert — a desert in N Saudi Arabia, SE Syria, W Iraq, and NE Jordan. About 125,000 sq. mi. (323,750 sq. km).
  • task-oriented — focusing on the completion of particular tasks as a measure of success
  • 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.
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the east side — the east side of Manhattan Island in New York City
  • the headlines — the main points of a television or radio news broadcast, read out before the full broadcast and summarized at the end
  • the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
  • the palisades — line of steep cliffs in NE N.J. & SE N.Y. on the west shore of the Hudson: c. 15 mi (24 km) long
  • third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
  • this and that — If you say that you are doing or talking about this and that, or this, that, and the other you mean that you are doing or talking about a variety of things that you do not want to specify.
  • this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
  • thomas edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
  • timed-release — sustained-release.
  • tinker's damn — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
  • to stand firm — If someone stands firm, they refuse to change their mind about something.
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