13-letter words containing d, i, s, p, e, n
- maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
- mean-spirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
- midi-pyrénées — a region of SW France: consists of N slopes of the Pyrenees in the south, a fertile lowland area in the west crossed by the River Garonne, and the edge of the Massif Central in the north and east
- mine disposal — the removal, disarming, or destruction of explosive mines
- mis-explained — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- misapprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend.
- miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
- mispositioned — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- mispronounced — Said wrongly.
- misredemption — illegal or fraudulent traffic in consumer product coupons, including mail theft and counterfeiting.
- needle biopsy — the removal of a small amount of tissue or cellular material with a long hollow surgical needle, performed for diagnostic purposes.
- neuropeptides — Plural form of neuropeptide.
- nitroprusside — (inorganic chemistry) Any salt, of the hypothetical nitroprussic acid, that contains a pentacyanonitrosylferrate anion.
- nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
- nondeposition — the failure to deposit
- nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
- nondispersive — not dispersive
- nondisposable — Not disposable.
- nondisruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- nonprescribed — Not prescribed.
- nucleocapsids — Plural form of nucleocapsid.
- open diapason — a full, rich outpouring of melodious sound.
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- opsonic index — the ratio of the number of bacteria destroyed by phagocytes in the blood of a test patient to the number destroyed in the blood of a normal individual
- paddle tennis — a game combining elements of tennis and handball, played with paddles and a rubber ball on a screened court about half the size of and having a lower net than a tennis court.
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- painted snipe — either of two snipelike birds of the family Rostratulidae, of South America and the Old World tropics, the female of which is larger and more brightly colored than the male.
- parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
- pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
- pedestrianism — the exercise or practice of walking.
- pedestrianize — to go on foot; walk.
- periodontitis — inflammation of the periodontium caused by bacteria that infect the roots of teeth and the surrounding gum crevices, producing bleeding, pus formation, and gradual loss of bone and the tissues that support the teeth. Compare pyorrhea (def 2).
- periodontosis — rapidly advancing juvenile periodontitis.
- phony disease — a disease of peaches, characterized by dwarfing, dark-green leaves, premature leafing and flowering, and the production of reduced numbers of small fruit, caused by a virus, Nanus mirabilis.
- pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
- plenitudinous — characterized or marked by plenitude.
- polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
- post-actinide — transactinide
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- postmodernism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
- postmodernist — relating to late 20th-century art movement
- predesignated — to designate beforehand.
- predestinated — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
- predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- prediscussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- predistortion — preemphasis.
- preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums