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13-letter words containing n, i, p, t

  • 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.
  • dispositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of disposition.
  • disproportion — lack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc.: architectural disproportions.
  • disreputation — disrepute.
  • disrespecting — Present participle of disrespect.
  • 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.
  • dna computing — (architecture)   The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • draftsmanship — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, as of machines, structures, etc.
  • drip painting — a technique of abstract painting exemplified chiefly in the later works of Jackson Pollack and marked by the intricately executed dripping and pouring of the paint on a canvas placed on the floor.
  • drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
  • dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
  • e-proposition — a universal negative proposition
  • ear-splitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
  • earl palatine — count palatine (def 2).
  • east pakistan — former name of Bangladesh.
  • east prussian — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
  • eighteenpence — The monetary amount of eighteen pence.
  • eighteenpenny — Having a value or cost of eighteenpence.
  • electrophonic — Relating to electronic equipment to produce sound (this adjectival sense is not comparable).
  • electrotyping — The act or process of making electrotypes.
  • elephant fish — a large marine fish, Callorhinchus milii, of southwest Pacific waters, having a snout resembling an elephant's trunk
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • elephantiasis — A condition in which a limb or other part of the body becomes grossly enlarged due to obstruction of the lymphatic vessels, typically by the nematode parasites that cause filariasis.
  • emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.
  • enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
  • enantiomorphy — the state of being enantiomorphic
  • enantiotropic — relating to enantiotropy
  • encapsulating — Present participle of encapsulate.
  • encapsulation — The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
  • encyclopedist — A person who writes, edits, or contributes to an encyclopedia.
  • endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
  • endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
  • endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
  • endopeptidase — An enzyme that breaks peptide bonds other than terminal ones in a peptide chain.
  • enhypostatize — to come together in one person or hypostasis
  • enterohepatic — Relating to or denoting the circulation of bile salts and other secretions from the liver to the intestine, where they are reabsorbed into the blood and returned to the liver.
  • enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
  • entomophilous — (of flowering plants) pollinated by insects
  • epicondylitis — A painful inflammation of tendons surrounding an epicondyle.
  • epidotization — the process of changing into epidote
  • epigeneticist — a person who studies epigenetics
  • epileptogenic — causing an epileptic attack
  • epinastically — in an epinastic manner
  • epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
  • epping forest — a forest in E England, northeast of London: formerly a royal hunting ground
  • equipartition — the equal division of the energy of a system in thermal equilibrium between different degrees of freedom. This principle was assumed to be exact in classical physics, but quantum theory shows that it is true only in certain special cases
  • equipollently — With equal power.
  • equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
  • equiponderate — To counterbalance.
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