13-letter words containing m, e, d, l, t
- dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
- dermatologies — Plural form of dermatology.
- dermatologist — A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in the study of skin and the treatment of skin diseases.
- dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
- dermoskeleton — (anatomy) An exoskeleton.
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- determinantal — of or relating to determinants
- determinately — having defined limits; definite.
- detrimentally — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
- deuteranomaly — a milder form of deuteranopia; partial deuteranopia
- developmental — Developmental means relating to the development of someone or something.
- diametrically — If you say that two things are diametrically opposed, you are emphasizing that they are completely different from each other.
- digital frame — a picture frame containing an LCD screen that is used to display digital photos: Download pictures to your digital frame directly from your camera's memory card.
- digital meter — A digital meter is a meter that gives a separate reading, in the form of a decimal number, for each given input quantity.
- dilettanteism — The condition of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
- dimethylamine — a colourless strong-smelling gas produced from ammonia and methanol, used to produce many industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals
- dimethylketol — acetoin.
- dipole moment — electric dipole moment.
- direct-mailer — a person or firm engaged in direct-mail advertising.
- dirty realism — a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
- disassimilate — to break down (a complex molecule or substance) into simple ones through catabolism
- disemployment — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
- disenrollment — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disentailment — The action of freeing property from entail.
- disilluminate — to darken
- dismantlement — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- disobligement — disobligation
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
- dissimilitude — unlikeness; difference; dissimilarity.
- 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.
- dolly mixture — a mixture of small coloured sweets
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- double-bottom — tandem trailer (def 1).
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- dumdum bullet — a hollow-nosed or soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact, inflicting a severe wound.
- dumdum-bullet — a hollow-nosed or soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact, inflicting a severe wound.
- dummy element — an otherwise empty element that stands in for and holds the position of another element in a sentence
- electrodermal — Of or relating to measurement of the electrical conductivity of the skin, especially as an indicator of someone’s emotional responses.
- electroformed — Produced, or modified by electroforming.
- emotionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of emotionalize.
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
- family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
- female thread — a helical groove in a cylindrical hole formed by a tap or lathe tool
- feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
- flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
- fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
- foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry