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13-letter words containing i, d, r, s

  • deservingness — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
  • designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
  • designer drug — any of various narcotic or hallucinogenic substances manufactured illegally from a range of chemicals
  • designer gene — a gene altered or created by genetic engineering, especially for use in gene therapy.
  • desirableness — The quality of being desirable.
  • dessert knife — a knife used during the dessert course, usually somewhat smaller than a dinner knife.
  • destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
  • destructively — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
  • destructivism — the theory that a part of a whole may be considered a principle part if the destruction of that part would lead to the destruction of the whole
  • destructivist — a person who holds to the theory of destructivism
  • desulfuration — to desulfurize.
  • desultoriness — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
  • desynchronize — Disturb the synchronization of; put out of step or phase.
  • determinators — determiner (def 1).
  • deterministic — Deterministic ideas or explanations are based on determinism.
  • deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
  • deuteronomist — one of the writers of Deuteronomy
  • 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
  • diaphragmitis — inflammation of the diaphragm, phrenitis
  • diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
  • 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.
  • dick size war — penis war
  • dictatorships — Plural form of dictatorship.
  • differentials — Plural form of differential.
  • differentness — not alike in character or quality; distinct in nature; dissimilar: The two brothers are very different, although they are identical twins.
  • digressionary — Serving as a digression.
  • dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
  • dimmer switch — A dimmer switch is an electrical switch which turns off the full beam of a headlamp and turns on the low beam.
  • dimmer-switch — a person or thing that dims.
  • dingleberries — Plural form of dingleberry.
  • dinitrogenase — (enzyme) One of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.
  • dioristically — in a dioristic manner
  • dip-and-scarp — (of topography) characterized by alternating steeper scarp slopes and gentler dip slopes
  • direct access — pertaining to the ability to obtain data from, or place data in, external storage without the need to sequentially scan other data contained there.
  • direct speech — actual words spoken, not quoted or reported
  • direct-access — pertaining to the ability to obtain data from, or place data in, external storage without the need to sequentially scan other data contained there.
  • directionless — the act or an instance of directing.
  • directorships — Plural form of directorship.
  • 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
  • disaccharides — Plural form of disaccharide.
  • disaffirmance — to deny; contradict.
  • disafforested — Simple past tense and past participle of disafforest.
  • disaggregated — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
  • disagreeables — annoying things
  • disagreements — Plural form of disagreement.
  • disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
  • disapparelled — undressed; naked
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