13-letter words containing n, e, t, l
- directionless — the act or an instance of directing.
- disconsolated — Obsolete form of disconsolate.
- discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
- 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.
- disentangling — Present participle of disentangle.
- disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disgruntledly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disilluminate — to darken
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disinthralled — freed from thraldom
- disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
- dismantlement — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- disobediently — In a disobedient manner.
- disobligement — disobligation
- disordinately — in a manner that lacks order
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- disquietingly — causing anxiety or uneasiness; disturbing: disquieting news.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- 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.
- distinctively — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
- distressingly — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- diving beetle — any of numerous predaceous water beetles of the family Dytiscidae, having the body adapted for swimming.
- diving petrel — any of several small seabirds of the family Pelecanoididae, of Southern Hemisphere seas, having compact bodies, tubelike processes near the nostrils, and usually drab plumage.
- divinyl ether — vinyl ether.
- 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.
- 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.
- double batten — two wooden battens screwed together for holding the edge of a drop between them.
- 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.
- double-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
- doubtlessness — The property of being doubtless.
- doughnut hole — a funding shortfall in the standard drug benefit offered by many Medicare prescription drug plans
- down the line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
- down-the-line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
- downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
- 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.
- 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.
- dummy element — an otherwise empty element that stands in for and holds the position of another element in a sentence
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- e-mail client — mail user agent
- ear-splitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- earl palatine — count palatine (def 2).
- east berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
- east flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1150 sq. mi. (2980 sq. km). Capital: Ghent.