13-letter words containing i, n, o, r, d
- diprotodontid — any of the extinct marsupials belonging to the genus Diprotodon, characterized by having two incisor teeth in the bottom jaw
- direct action — any action seeking to achieve an immediate or direct result, especially an action against an established authority or powerful institution, as a strike or picketing.
- direct motion — the movement of a celestial body (as seen from the earth) from east to west across the sky
- directionally — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- directionless — the act or an instance of directing.
- dirty old man — a mature or elderly man with lewd or obscene preoccupations.
- disaster zone — area affected by a catastrophe
- discoloration — the act or fact of discoloring or the state of being discolored.
- discomforting — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconcerting — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- disconcertion — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
- disconfirming — Not confirming.
- disconformity — Geology. the surface of a division between parallel rock strata, indicating interruption of sedimentation: a type of unconformity.
- discordianism — (recreation) /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ The veneration of Eris, also known as Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularised by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Illuminatus!" as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners - it should on no account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from "Principia Discordia": "A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads." Discordianism is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati. See Religion, Church of the SubGenius, and ha ha only serious.
- 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.
- discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- discriminator — a person or thing that discriminates.
- disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
- disenrollment — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disharmonious — inharmonious; discordant.
- disharmonized — Simple past tense and past participle of disharmonize.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- disinhibitory — (esp of a drug) causing temporary loss of inhibition
- disintegrator — One who, or that which, disintegrates.
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- disordinately — in a manner that lacks order
- disorganizing — Present participle of disorganize.
- disorientated — to disorient.
- disorientates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disorientate.
- disproportion — lack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc.: architectural disproportions.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- disreputation — disrepute.
- disseminators — Plural form of disseminator.
- dissertations — Plural form of dissertation.
- distortedness — The quality of being distorted.
- distortionary — an act or instance of distorting.
- distributions — Plural form of distribution.
- divarications — Plural form of divarication.
- diversionists — Plural form of diversionist.
- divine mother — the creative, dynamic aspect of the Godhead, the consort or Shakti of Brahma, Vishnu, or Shiva, variously known as Devi, Durga, Kālī, Shakti, etc.
- division ring — a ring in which the set of nonzero elements is a group with the operation of multiplication.
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- documentarian — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary