13-letter words containing e, y, l, s
- conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
- core analysis — Core analysis is the process of studying a sample of rock in a laboratory.
- coterminously — having the same border or covering the same area.
- country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
- courtesy call — a formal visit
- cradle scythe — cradle (def 4b).
- crustaceology — The branch of zoology dealing with crustaceans.
- crystal clear — Water that is crystal clear is absolutely clear and transparent like glass.
- crystal pleat — one of a series of fine, permanently pressed pleats of varying widths, usually in a sheer fabric
- crystal-clear — absolutely clear; transparent; lucid.
- cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
- cyberstalkers — Plural form of cyberstalker.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- cyclosilicate — any silicate in which the SiO 4 tetrahedra are linked to form rings.
- cyclospermous — having the embryo curled around the central albumen
- cylinder desk — a desk having a cylinder front, usually a tambour but occasionally of solid wood.
- cylinder seal — a cylindrical seal of stone, clay, or precious stone decorated with linear designs, found in the Middle East and Balkans: dating from about 6000 bc
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- cytoskeletons — Plural form of cytoskeleton.
- dalton system — a method of progressive education whereby students contract to carry through on their own responsibility the year's work as divided up into monthly assignments.
- day blindness — hemeralopia.
- decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
- decasyllables — Plural form of decasyllable.
- declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
- deely boppers — hairband with two bobbing antennae-like attachments
- defeasibility — capable of being annulled or terminated.
- defenselessly — In a defenseless manner.
- defensibility — capable of being defended against assault or injury: The troops were bivouacked in a defensible position.
- deleteriously — In a deleterious manner; harmfully.
- demythologise — to divest of mythological or legendary attributes or forms, as in order to permit clearer appraisal and understanding: to demythologize the music dramas of Richard Wagner for modern listeners.
- dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
- descriptively — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- despicability — Despicableness.
- destructively — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- detestability — The state or quality of being detestable.
- devastatingly — tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
- dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- digestibility — capable of being digested; readily digested.
- dimensionally — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- dirty realism — a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
- discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
- disemployment — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
- disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
- disgruntledly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
- disobediently — In a disobedient manner.
- disordinately — in a manner that lacks order
- display panel — an electronic screen on which information can be displayed
- dispositively — in a dispositive manner