13-letter words containing g, e, t, o
- diagnosticate — (archaic, transitive) To make a diagnosis of; to recognise (a disease or similar) by its symptoms.
- 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.
- digital detox — a period during which a person refrains from using digital or electronic devices, as to avoid distractions or make time for other activities: my week-long digital detox.
- digital video — video output based on digital rather than analogue signals
- digitoxigenin — a steroid derived from digitalis, used in certain cardiac drug treatments
- dinitrogenase — (enzyme) One of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.
- diphthongized — Simple past tense and past participle of diphthongize.
- disconcerting — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- disconnecting — Present participle of disconnect.
- disintegrator — One who, or that which, disintegrates.
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- disobligement — disobligation
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- 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.
- double-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
- doughnut hole — a funding shortfall in the standard drug benefit offered by many Medicare prescription drug plans
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
- dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
- drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- earth-goddess — a goddess of fertility and vegetation.
- ecomanagement — any of various ways to lessen the harmful impact of human activity on the environment.
- ecotoxicology — The branch of science that deals with the nature, effects, and interactions of substances that are harmful to the environment.
- egocentricity — The quality of being egocentric.
- egotistically — In an egotistic manner.
- egyptological — Alternative form of Egyptological.
- eigenfunction — Each of a set of independent functions that are the solutions to a given differential equation.
- eight o'clock — 8 a.m.
- electrocuting — Present participle of electrocute.
- electrographs — Plural form of electrograph.
- electrologist — A person trained to remove unwanted hair on the body or face or small blemishes on the skin by a method that involves the application of heat using an electric current.
- electrolyzing — Present participle of electrolyze.
- electromagnet — A soft metal core made into a magnet by the passage of electric current through a coil surrounding it.
- electrostrong — (physics) describing the combination of the electromagnetic and strong nuclear forces.
- electrotyping — The act or process of making electrotypes.
- embryogenetic — embryogenic
- emigrationist — a person who promotes emigration
- encouragement — The action of giving someone support, confidence, or hope.
- entomological — Of or pertaining to entomology.
- entomologists — Plural form of entomologist.
- entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
- epileptogenic — causing an epileptic attack
- epizootiology — the study of the systems that govern disease dynamics in animals
- epping forest — a forest in E England, northeast of London: formerly a royal hunting ground
- ergatomorphic — pertaining to an ergatomorph
- ergotoxicosis — Ergotism.