13-letter words containing d, s
- distortionary — an act or instance of distorting.
- distractingly — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distress call — a prearranged communication code sign indicating that the sender is in a situation of peril, distress, or the like, as SOS, Mayday, etc. Compare distress signal (def 1).
- distress flag — any flag flown by a vessel to show that it is in distress, as an ensign flown at half-mast or upside down.
- distress sale — a sale held for the purpose of raising money to meet emergency expenses and usually offering goods at a substantial discount for the payment of cash.
- distressfully — In a distressful way; showing distress.
- distressingly — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distributions — Plural form of distribution.
- distributives — Plural form of distributive.
- distrustfully — In a distrustful manner.
- distrustingly — In a distrusting manner.
- disubstituted — containing two substituents.
- disyllabicity — The state or characteristic of having two syllables.
- divarications — Plural form of divarication.
- diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- diversionists — Plural form of diversionist.
- divertisement — (archaic) diversion; amusement; recreation.
- division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
- division ring — a ring in which the set of nonzero elements is a group with the operation of multiplication.
- division sign — the symbol (÷) or (/) placed between two expressions and denoting division of the first by the second.
- dizzy heights — If you say that someone has reached the dizzy heights of something, you are emphasizing that they have reached a very high level by achieving it.
- do justice to — to show to full advantage
- do one's nana — to become very angry
- do the dishes — do the washing up, wash the dishes
- do the honors — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- do-nothingism — the policy or practice of opposing a specific measure or change simply by refusing to consider or act on proposals; deliberate obstructionism.
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- document case — a flat, portable case, often of leather, for carrying papers, documents etc.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- dod-std-2167a — (standard) A DoD standard specifying the overall process for the development and documentation of mission-critical software systems.
- dodecahedrons — Plural form of dodecahedron.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- dog's disease — influenza.
- dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
- dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- dolman sleeve — a sleeve tapered from a very large armhole to fit closely at the wrist, used on women's garments.
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- dome fastener — a fastening device consisting of one part with a projecting knob that snaps into a hole on another like part, used esp in closures in clothing
- domesday book — a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
- doomsday book — Domesday Book.