13-letter words containing d, u, s, t, a
- cactus dahlia — a double-flowered variety of dahlia
- carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
- cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
- casualty ward — a ward which temporarily accommodates patients who have been treated in the casualty department and who need to stay in hospital
- cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
- cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
- confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
- conquistadors — Plural form of conquistador.
- consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
- cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
- costume drama — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
- count towards — If something counts towards or counts toward an achievement or right, it is included as one of the things that give you the right to it.
- courtesy card — a privilege card
- custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
- custard cream — a biscuit consisting of two layers with a filling of vanilla-flavoured paste
- custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
- customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
- cut and paste — a technique used in word processing by which a section of text can be moved within a document
- cut-and-paste — assembled or produced from various existing bits and pieces: The book purports to be a history but is just a cut-and-paste job of old essays and newspaper clippings.
- daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
- data security — the protection of data stored on computers
- dauntlessness — The characteristic of being dauntless; fearlessness.
- death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
- death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
- denaturations — Plural form of denaturation.
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- denunciations — Plural form of denunciation.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
- disaccustomed — Simple past tense and past participle of disaccustom.
- disambiguated — Simple past tense and past participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disambiguate.
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
- disaster fund — a fund set up to relieve people or countries afflicted by a disaster
- disceptatious — disputable
- discount card — a card that entitles the holder to buy goods from a seller at a discount
- discount rate — the rate of interest charged in discounting commercial paper.