13-letter words containing d, i, r, t
- diffractogram — An image produced by a diffractometer.
- digital frame — a picture frame containing an LCD screen that is used to display digital photos: Download pictures to your digital frame directly from your camera's memory card.
- digital meter — A digital meter is a meter that gives a separate reading, in the form of a decimal number, for each given input quantity.
- digital radio — electronic wireless transmission
- digitinervate — (of a leaf) having veins that radiate from the petiole like the fingers of a hand.
- dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
- dimmer switch — A dimmer switch is an electrical switch which turns off the full beam of a headlamp and turns on the low beam.
- dimmer-switch — a person or thing that dims.
- dinitrogenase — (enzyme) One of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.
- dinitrophenol — any of the six isomers consisting of phenol where two hydrogen atoms are substituted by nitro groups, C 6 H 4 N 2 O 5 , used in dyes and wood preservatives, and in biochemistry to uncouple oxidative phosphorylation.
- dinner jacket — tuxedo (def 1).
- dinoturbation — the effect or process of trampling and major disturbance to sedimentary rock layers caused by the movement of dinosaurs
- dioristically — in a dioristic manner
- diplock court — in Northern Ireland, a court of law designed to try cases linked with terrorism. In order to prevent the intimidation of jurors, the court consists of a single judge and no jury
- diprotic acid — any acid with two hydrogen atoms in its molecule that are capable of being released or ionized in water, such as sulphuric acid and carbonic acid
- diprotodontid — any of the extinct marsupials belonging to the genus Diprotodon, characterized by having two incisor teeth in the bottom jaw
- direct access — pertaining to the ability to obtain data from, or place data in, external storage without the need to sequentially scan other data contained there.
- direct action — any action seeking to achieve an immediate or direct result, especially an action against an established authority or powerful institution, as a strike or picketing.
- direct cinema — a rigorous form of cinéma vérité, especially as practiced by some American cinematographers in the late 1950s, in which only indigenous sound is used.
- direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
- direct method — a technique of foreign-language teaching in which only the target language is used, little instruction is given concerning formal rules of grammar, and language use is often elicited in situational contexts.
- direct motion — the movement of a celestial body (as seen from the earth) from east to west across the sky
- direct object — a word or group of words representing the person or thing upon which the action of a verb is performed or toward which it is directed: in English, generally coming after the verb, without a preposition. In He saw it the pronoun it is the direct object of saw.
- direct speech — actual words spoken, not quoted or reported
- direct-access — pertaining to the ability to obtain data from, or place data in, external storage without the need to sequentially scan other data contained there.
- direct-acting — (of a steam pump) having the steam pistons connected directly to the pump pistons without a crankshaft or flywheel.
- direct-mailer — a person or firm engaged in direct-mail advertising.
- directionally — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- directionless — the act or an instance of directing.
- directorially — In terms of film direction.
- directorships — Plural form of directorship.
- dirty laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
- dirty old man — a mature or elderly man with lewd or obscene preoccupations.
- dirty realism — a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
- dirty weekend — A dirty weekend is a weekend during which two people go away together, mainly in order to have sex.
- dirty-laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
- disafforested — Simple past tense and past participle of disafforest.
- disaggregated — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disagreements — Plural form of disagreement.
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
- disaster area — a region or locality in which the population is generally affected by the occurrence of a major disaster, as a widespread flood, an explosion causing extensive damage, or the like.
- disaster fund — a fund set up to relieve people or countries afflicted by a disaster
- disaster zone — area affected by a catastrophe
- disburdenment — The removal of a burden; an unburdening.
- disbursements — Plural form of disbursement.
- discoloration — the act or fact of discoloring or the state of being discolored.
- discomforting — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconcerting — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- disconcertion — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.