13-letter words containing l, a, d, e, n
- dialling code — A dialling code for a particular city or region is the series of numbers that you have to dial before a particular telephone number if you are making a call to that place from a different area.
- dialling tone — The dialling tone is the noise which you hear when you pick up a telephone receiver and which means that you can dial the number you want.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- dieselization — The conversion of a petrol engine to run on diesel fuel.
- differentials — Plural form of differential.
- dilettanteish — Alternative form of dilettantish.
- dilettanteism — The condition of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
- dimensionally — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- dimethylamine — a colourless strong-smelling gas produced from ammonia and methanol, used to produce many industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals
- diphenoxylate — a substance, C 30 H 32 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride in the treatment of diarrhea.
- diphenylamine — a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble benzene derivative, C 12 H 11 N, used chiefly in the preparation of various dyes, as a stabilizer for nitrocellulose propellants, and for the detection of oxidizing agents in analytical chemistry.
- directionally — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
- disassembling — Present participle of disassemble.
- disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.
- disconsolated — Obsolete form of disconsolate.
- discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
- disentailment — The action of freeing property from entail.
- disentangling — Present participle of disentangle.
- disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disilluminate — to darken
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disinthralled — freed from thraldom
- dismantlement — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- disordinately — in a manner that lacks order
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- display panel — an electronic screen on which information can be displayed
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- 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.
- dolman sleeve — a sleeve tapered from a very large armhole to fit closely at the wrist, used on women's garments.
- domain handle — (networking) Information held by a domain name registrar about a registrant (the person or organisation that owns the name). Typically the registrar stores one copy of this information and refers to that copy for each additional domain registered by the same person. The information would include basic contact details: name, e-mail address, etc. and billing information. Some of this information would be used to populate the whois database entry for a domain.
- donald cherry — Donald Eugene ("Don") 1936–95, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
- donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
- doppelgangers — Plural form of doppelganger.
- double batten — two wooden battens screwed together for holding the edge of a drop between them.
- double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
- 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.
- downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- draw the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- dreadlessness — the state or quality of being without fear or dread
- dreamlessness — The state or condition of being dreamless; lack of dreams.
- drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- dual alliance — the alliance between France and Russia (1890), strengthened by a military convention (1892–93) and lasting until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.