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13-letter words containing d, s, p

  • deep discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
  • deep-discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
  • deep-dish pie — a pie baked in a deep dish and having only a top crust
  • deep-sea core — an intact sample of sediment extracted from the ocean floor by drilling with a long hollow tube.
  • deipnosophist — a person who is a master of dinner-table conversation
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
  • depersonalise — Alternative spelling of depersonalize.
  • depersonalize — To depersonalize a system or a situation means to treat it as if it did not really involve people, or to treat it as if the people involved were not really important.
  • depoliticised — Simple past tense and past participle of depoliticise.
  • depoliticizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depoliticize.
  • deposit money — checks, letters of credit, etc., that circulate and are payable on demand.
  • depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
  • depressogenic — Causing or tending to cause depression.
  • depressomotor — retarding motor activity
  • depressurized — Simple past tense and past participle of depressurize.
  • depressurizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depressurize.
  • depth sounder — an instrument for determining depths under water, especially under a ship.
  • dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
  • dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
  • dermographism — dermatographia.
  • descriptively — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • descriptivism — the theory that moral utterances have a truth value
  • descriptivist — a writer, teacher, or supporter of descriptive grammar or descriptive linguistics.
  • descriptivity — The quality or state of being descriptive.
  • desperateness — reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency: a desperate killer.
  • despicability — Despicableness.
  • dessert apple — an eating apple; an apple that can be eaten raw
  • 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.
  • deuteroscopic — of or relating to deuteroscopy; of second sight
  • devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
  • diadem spider — a common Eurasian spider, Araneus diadematus, that constructs orb webs: family Argiopidae
  • diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
  • dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
  • diaphragmitis — inflammation of the diaphragm, phrenitis
  • diazo process — a method for printing on paper treated with a diazo compound that disintegrates upon exposure to light and developing the unexposed areas by the use of diazo dyes.
  • dictatorships — Plural form of dictatorship.
  • diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
  • dilapidations — Plural form of dilapidation.
  • dip one's lid — to raise one's hat as a greeting, etc
  • dip-and-scarp — (of topography) characterized by alternating steeper scarp slopes and gentler dip slopes
  • dipleidoscope — an instrument that uses a telescope and a hollow prism to see when the sun crosses the meridian
  • diplobacillus — a double bacillus; two bacilli linked end to end.
  • dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
  • dipstick test — a test for detecting the presence of sugar in the urine, as in diabetes.
  • direct speech — actual words spoken, not quoted or reported
  • directorships — Plural form of directorship.
  • disapparelled — undressed; naked
  • disappearance — the act or an instance of disappearing; a ceasing to be seen or to exist.
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