13-letter words containing d, n, r
- desperateness — reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency: a desperate killer.
- dessert knife — a knife used during the dessert course, usually somewhat smaller than a dinner knife.
- dessert spoon — A dessert spoon is a spoon which is midway between the size of a teaspoon and a tablespoon. You use it to eat desserts.
- dessertspoons — Plural form of dessertspoon.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- 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
- deuteranomaly — a milder form of deuteranopia; partial deuteranopia
- deuteronomist — one of the writers of Deuteronomy
- devirgination — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- dexterousness — The state or quality of being dexterous.
- diamond drill — a diamond-tipped drill
- diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- 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.
- digitinervate — (of a leaf) having veins that radiate from the petiole like the fingers of a hand.
- digressionary — Serving as a digression.
- dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
- dingleberries — Plural form of dingleberry.
- 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
- dip-and-scarp — (of topography) characterized by alternating steeper scarp slopes and gentler dip slopes
- diprotodontid — any of the extinct marsupials belonging to the genus Diprotodon, characterized by having two incisor teeth in the bottom jaw
- 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 motion — the movement of a celestial body (as seen from the earth) from east to west across the sky
- direct-acting — (of a steam pump) having the steam pistons connected directly to the pump pistons without a crankshaft or flywheel.
- directionally — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- directionless — the act or an instance of directing.
- 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.