13-letter words containing i, s, d, o, r, u
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- 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.
- discourtesies — Plural form of discourtesy.
- disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disharmonious — inharmonious; discordant.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- disreputation — disrepute.
- distributions — Plural form of distribution.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
- 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.
- durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- ferrous oxide — a black powder, FeO, insoluble in water, soluble in acid.
- food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- fortitudinous — having or showing fortitude; marked by bravery or courage.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- good gracious — Some people say good gracious or goodness gracious in order to express surprise or annoyance.
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- grandiloquous — grandiloquent
- ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
- gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
- house-trained — housebroken.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- hudson strait — a strait connecting Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. 450 miles (725 km) long; 100 miles (160 km) wide.
- hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
- hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
- hydromedusoid — a jellyfish or something resembling a jellyfish that lives in water
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
- hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
- in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- industriously — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
- inodorousness — the quality of being inodorous
- insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- introductions — Plural form of introduction.
- jurisdictions — Plural form of jurisdiction.
- lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
- liquid storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
- ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.