13-letter words containing i, r, s, a
- 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.
- disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- disparagingly — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- disparateness — The degree to which a thing is disparate.
- dispraisingly — By way of dispraise.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disregardable — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- disregardless — (nonstandard) Regardless.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- disreputation — disrepute.
- disseminators — Plural form of disseminator.
- dissertations — Plural form of dissertation.
- dissimilarity — unlikeness; difference.
- dissimilatory — to modify by dissimilation.
- distance race — a running race longer than 1500 meters (1635 yards).
- distortionary — an act or instance of distorting.
- distractingly — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distress call — a prearranged communication code sign indicating that the sender is in a situation of peril, distress, or the like, as SOS, Mayday, etc. Compare distress signal (def 1).
- distress flag — any flag flown by a vessel to show that it is in distress, as an ensign flown at half-mast or upside down.
- distress sale — a sale held for the purpose of raising money to meet emergency expenses and usually offering goods at a substantial discount for the payment of cash.
- distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- divarications — Plural form of divarication.
- diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- draft version — a preliminary version
- draftsmanship — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, as of machines, structures, etc.
- dragon's tail — (formerly) the descending node of the moon or a planet.
- dramatic arts — the art of the writing and production of plays; drama
- dramatisation — Alternative spelling of dramatization.
- dresden china — porcelain ware produced at Meissen, Germany, near Dresden, after 1710.
- dressing case — a small piece of luggage for carrying toilet articles, medicine, etc.
- dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
- drilling mast — A drilling mast is a structure over an oil well which supports the drilling equipment and allows it to be lifted into and out of the wellbore.
- drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
- driver's seat — the seat from which a vehicle is operated.
- dromaeosaurid — A carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of a late Cretaceous family that included deinonychus and the velociraptors. They had a large slashing claw on each hind foot.
- drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
- dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
- durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
- dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
- dysrationalia — The inability to think and behave rationally despite adequate intelligence.