13-letter words containing i, n, b
- desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
- destabilising — Present participle of destabilise.
- destabilizing — Present participle of destabilize.
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
- dieffenbachia — any of various plants belonging to the genus Dieffenbachia, of the arum family, native to tropical America, often cultivated as houseplants for their decorative foliage.
- dien bien phu — a town in NW Vietnam: site of defeat of French forces by Vietminh 1954, bringing to an end the French rule of Indochina.
- digby chicken — a smoked herring.
- dingleberries — Plural form of dingleberry.
- dinoturbation — the effect or process of trampling and major disturbance to sedimentary rock layers caused by the movement of dinosaurs
- disassembling — Present participle of disassemble.
- disburdenment — The removal of a burden; an unburdening.
- disbursements — Plural form of disbursement.
- disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.
- discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
- discriminably — So as to be discriminable; distinguishably.
- disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
- disembodiment — to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.
- disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
- disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- disinhibiting — Present participle of disinhibit.
- disinhibition — Psychology. a temporary loss of inhibition caused by an outside stimulus.
- disinhibitory — (esp of a drug) causing temporary loss of inhibition
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- dismemberment — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
- disobediently — In a disobedient manner.
- disobligation — the state of being without obligation
- disobligement — disobligation
- disobligingly — So as to disoblige.
- disponibility — Availability.
- distributions — Plural form of distribution.
- diving beetle — any of numerous predaceous water beetles of the family Dytiscidae, having the body adapted for swimming.
- division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
- double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- double vision — diplopia.
- double window — a window with two panes of glass
- 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-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
- double-minded — wavering or undecided in mind.
- double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- dragging-beam — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
- drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
- drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
- dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.