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13-letter words containing d, o, n, a, g, e

  • dead and gone — If you say that someone is dead and gone, you are emphasizing that they are dead, and thinking about what happened or will happen after their death.
  • dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
  • decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
  • decongestants — Plural form of decongestant.
  • decorticating — Present participle of decorticate.
  • deglutination — to extract the gluten from.
  • degradational — (geology) Pertaining to or formed by degradation.
  • degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
  • dehydrogenase — an enzyme, such as any of the respiratory enzymes, that activates oxidation-reduction reactions by transferring hydrogen from substrate to acceptor
  • dehydrogenate — to remove hydrogen from
  • deintegration — an act or instance of integrating a racial, religious, or ethnic group.
  • democratizing — Present participle of democratize.
  • demonological — the study of demons or of beliefs about demons.
  • demonstrating — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
  • demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
  • dendrological — Of, pertaining to dendrology.
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • deng xiaoping — 1904–97, Chinese Communist statesman; deputy prime minister (1973–76; 1977–80) and the dominant figure in the Chinese government from 1977 until his death. He was twice removed from office (1967–73, 1976–77) and rehabilitated. He introduced economic liberalization, but suppressed demands for political reform, most notably in 1989 when over 2500 demonstrators were killed by the military in Tiananmen Square in Beijing
  • dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
  • deontological — (of an ethical theory) regarding obligation as deriving from reason or as residing primarily in certain specific rules of conduct rather than in the maximization of some good
  • deoxygenating — Present participle of deoxygenate.
  • deoxygenation — to remove oxygen from (a substance, as blood or water).
  • dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
  • desegregation — the elimination of laws, customs, or practices under which people from different religions, ancestries, ethnic groups, etc., are restricted to specific or separate public facilities, neighborhoods, schools, organizations, or the like.
  • desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
  • deteriorating — Become progressively worse.
  • deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
  • devirgination — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
  • diagnosticate — (archaic, transitive) To make a diagnosis of; to recognise (a disease or similar) by its symptoms.
  • 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.
  • digressionary — Serving as a digression.
  • dinitrogenase — (enzyme) One of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.
  • disintegrator — One who, or that which, disintegrates.
  • disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
  • disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
  • doer and gone — far away
  • domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
  • doppelgangers — Plural form of doppelganger.
  • double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
  • dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
  • dragon's head — any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
  • drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dynamogenesis — the output of raised activity of the nervous system
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
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