13-letter words containing d, i, n
- destabilising — Present participle of destabilise.
- destabilizing — Present participle of destabilize.
- destituteness — The state or quality of being destitute.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- 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.
- desynchronize — Disturb the synchronization of; put out of step or phase.
- deteriorating — Become progressively worse.
- deterioration — the act or process of deteriorating.
- determinantal — of or relating to determinants
- determinately — having defined limits; definite.
- determinating — having defined limits; definite.
- determination — Determination is the quality that you show when you have decided to do something and you will not let anything stop you.
- determinative — able to or serving to settle or determine; deciding
- determinators — determiner (def 1).
- deterministic — Deterministic ideas or explanations are based on determinism.
- detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
- detrimentally — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
- deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
- deuteronomist — one of the writers of Deuteronomy
- devastatingly — tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
- devirgination — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- devotionalist — a devotee
- diacatholicon — an all-purpose remedy
- diagnosticate — (archaic, transitive) To make a diagnosis of; to recognise (a disease or similar) by its symptoms.
- diagnostician — a specialist or expert in making diagnoses
- dialling code — A dialling code for a particular city or region is the series of numbers that you have to dial before a particular telephone number if you are making a call to that place from a different area.
- dialling tone — The dialling tone is the noise which you hear when you pick up a telephone receiver and which means that you can dial the number you want.
- diamond drill — a diamond-tipped drill
- diamond point — a diamond-tipped engraving tool
- diamond snake — a python, Morelia argus, of Australia and New Guinea, with yellow diamond-shaped markings
- diamond state — Delaware (used as a nickname).
- diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- diazotization — the preparation of a diazonium salt by treatment of an arylamine with nitrous acid.
- dichotomising — Present participle of dichotomise.
- dichotomizing — Present participle of dichotomize.
- dicloxacillin — A narrow-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotic of the penicillin class, used to treat infections caused by susceptible gram-positive bacteria.
- dicyandiamide — a white, crystalline, rather sparingly water-soluble solid, C 2 H 4 N 4 , produced from cyanamide by polymerization: used in the manufacture of plastics and pharmaceuticals.
- dieffenbachia — any of various plants belonging to the genus Dieffenbachia, of the arum family, native to tropical America, often cultivated as houseplants for their decorative foliage.
- 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.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- diesel engine — a compression-ignition engine in which a spray of fuel, introduced into air compressed to a temperature of approximately 1000° F (538° C), ignites at a virtually constant pressure.
- dieselization — The conversion of a petrol engine to run on diesel fuel.
- diffarreation — (historical) A form of divorce, among the Ancient Romans, in which a cake was used.
- differentials — Plural form of differential.
- differentiate — to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
- differentness — not alike in character or quality; distinct in nature; dissimilar: The two brothers are very different, although they are identical twins.