13-letter words containing n, a, s, r
- demonstratory — having the quality of demonstrating
- denaturations — Plural form of denaturation.
- dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
- denmark vesey — Denmark, 1767–1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.
- dental caries — cavity formation in teeth caused by bacteria that attach to teeth and form acids in the presence of sucrose, other sugars, and refined starches; tooth decay.
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- deodorisation — Alternative form of deodorization.
- depersonalise — Alternative spelling of depersonalize.
- depersonalize — To depersonalize a system or a situation means to treat it as if it did not really involve people, or to treat it as if the people involved were not really important.
- depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
- derealisation — Alternative form of derealization.
- derivationist — a person who believes that it is possible to derive knowledge of what is good for humans from a metaphysical study of humans themselves
- desacralizing — Present participle of desacralize.
- desegregating — Present participle of desegregate.
- desegregation — the elimination of laws, customs, or practices under which people from different religions, ancestries, ethnic groups, etc., are restricted to specific or separate public facilities, neighborhoods, schools, organizations, or the like.
- desert island — A desert island is a small tropical island, where nobody lives.
- desertization — the processes by which an area becomes a desert.
- designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
- desirableness — The quality of being desirable.
- desk calendar — a loose-leaf calendar containing one or two pages for each day, with spaces for notes.
- desperateness — reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency: a desperate killer.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- determinators — determiner (def 1).
- deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- differentials — Plural form of differential.
- digressionary — Serving as a digression.
- dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
- dinitrogenase — (enzyme) One of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.
- dip-and-scarp — (of topography) characterized by alternating steeper scarp slopes and gentler dip slopes
- disaffirmance — to deny; contradict.
- disagreements — Plural form of disagreement.
- disappearance — the act or an instance of disappearing; a ceasing to be seen or to exist.
- disaster fund — a fund set up to relieve people or countries afflicted by a disaster
- disaster zone — area affected by a catastrophe
- discoloration — the act or fact of discoloring or the state of being discolored.
- discordianism — (recreation) /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ The veneration of Eris, also known as Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularised by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Illuminatus!" as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners - it should on no account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from "Principia Discordia": "A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads." Discordianism is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati. See Religion, Church of the SubGenius, and ha ha only serious.
- 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.
- discrepancies — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
- discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
- discriminably — So as to be discriminable; distinguishably.
- discriminants — Plural form of discriminant.
- discriminated — Simple past tense and past participle of discriminate.
- discriminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discriminate.
- discriminator — a person or thing that discriminates.
- disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
- disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.