13-letter words containing l, o, s
- dispositional — the predominant or prevailing tendency of one's spirits; natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristic attitude: a girl with a pleasant disposition.
- dispositively — in a dispositive manner
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- dissimilation — the act of making or becoming unlike.
- dissimilatory — to modify by dissimilation.
- dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
- dissolubility — The capability to be dissolved or disintegrated.
- dissoluteness — indifferent to moral restraints; given to immoral or improper conduct; licentious; dissipated.
- dissolve into — If you dissolve into or dissolve in tears or laughter, you begin to cry or laugh, because you cannot control yourself.
- distillations — Plural form of distillation.
- division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- 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
- dolman sleeve — a sleeve tapered from a very large armhole to fit closely at the wrist, used on women's garments.
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- 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.
- doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
- doppelgangers — Plural form of doppelganger.
- doppler laser — a technique for measuring the shift in frequency between the source and reflected radiation of a laser.
- doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
- double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
- double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
- double vision — diplopia.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- doubtlessness — The property of being doubtless.
- douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- dragon's tail — (formerly) the descending node of the moon or a planet.
- dry ski slope — A dry ski slope is a slope made of an artificial substance on which you can practise skiing.
- dual controls — If a vehicle used by a driving instructor has dual controls, it has pedals on the passenger's side as well as on the driver's side to allow the driving instructor to brake should the learner try to move off when it is dangerous to do so
- ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
- duino elegies — a collection of ten poems (1923) by Rainer Maria Rilke.
- duplicitously — In a duplicitous, two-faced manner.
- durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
- dysmorphology — The study of genetic defects, especially congenital malformations.
- dysrationalia — The inability to think and behave rationally despite adequate intelligence.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- early closing — shop closure at earlier hour
- ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
- ecclesiolatry — excessive reverence for churchly forms and traditions.
- economy class — a low-priced type of accommodation for travel, especially on an airplane.
- ecophysiology — the branch of physiology that deals with the physiological processes of organisms with respect to their environment.
- ecopsychology — A form of psychology based on integration with the natural world rather than with society.
- ectocommensal — Biology. (of an organism) living in a commensal relationship on the exterior of another organism.
- editorialists — Plural form of editorialist.