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13-letter words containing i, n, s, t, u, o

  • 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.
  • disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
  • disfunctional — dysfunction.
  • disquisitions — Plural form of disquisition.
  • disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
  • disreputation — disrepute.
  • dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
  • dissoluteness — indifferent to moral restraints; given to immoral or improper conduct; licentious; dissipated.
  • distributions — Plural form of distribution.
  • documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
  • documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
  • documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
  • ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
  • dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
  • educationists — Plural form of educationist.
  • encapsulation — The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
  • encrustations — Plural form of encrustation.
  • enteroviruses — Plural form of enterovirus.
  • entomophilous — (of flowering plants) pollinated by insects
  • equivocations — Plural form of equivocation.
  • ethnolinguist — a person who studies ethnolinguistics
  • ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
  • eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
  • eusporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a group of cells, rather than a single cell, and with no specialized dispersal of spores
  • euthanisation — Alternative spelling of euthanization.
  • exclusionists — Plural form of exclusionist.
  • excursionists — Plural form of excursionist.
  • expostulating — Present participle of expostulate.
  • expostulation — (countable) The act of reasoning earnestly in order to dissuade or remonstrate.
  • facetiousness — (uncountable) The state of being facetious.
  • fasciculation — a fascicular condition.
  • fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
  • feuilletonism — The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
  • feuilletonist — a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
  • floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
  • fortitudinous — having or showing fortitude; marked by bravery or courage.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
  • functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
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