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13-letter words containing n, s, i

  • desensitising — Present participle of desensitise.
  • desensitizing — Present participle of desensitize.
  • desert island — A desert island is a small tropical island, where nobody lives.
  • desertization — the processes by which an area becomes a desert.
  • deservingness — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
  • designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
  • designer drug — any of various narcotic or hallucinogenic substances manufactured illegally from a range of chemicals
  • designer gene — a gene altered or created by genetic engineering, especially for use in gene therapy.
  • desirableness — The quality of being desirable.
  • desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
  • dessert knife — a knife used during the dessert course, usually somewhat smaller than a dinner knife.
  • destabilising — Present participle of destabilise.
  • destabilizing — Present participle of destabilize.
  • destituteness — The state or quality of being destitute.
  • destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
  • desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
  • desulfuration — to desulfurize.
  • desultoriness — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
  • desynchronize — Disturb the synchronization of; put out of step or phase.
  • determinators — determiner (def 1).
  • deterministic — Deterministic ideas or explanations are based on determinism.
  • deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
  • deuteronomist — one of the writers of Deuteronomy
  • devastatingly — tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
  • devotionalist — a devotee
  • diagnosticate — (archaic, transitive) To make a diagnosis of; to recognise (a disease or similar) by its symptoms.
  • diagnostician — a specialist or expert in making diagnoses
  • diamond snake — a python, Morelia argus, of Australia and New Guinea, with yellow diamond-shaped markings
  • diamond state — Delaware (used as a nickname).
  • diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
  • dichotomising — Present participle of dichotomise.
  • diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
  • diesel engine — a compression-ignition engine in which a spray of fuel, introduced into air compressed to a temperature of approximately 1000° F (538° C), ignites at a virtually constant pressure.
  • dieselization — The conversion of a petrol engine to run on diesel fuel.
  • differentials — Plural form of differential.
  • differentness — not alike in character or quality; distinct in nature; dissimilar: The two brothers are very different, although they are identical twins.
  • difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
  • diffusiveness — The state or quality of being diffusive.
  • digging stick — a pointed or spatulate wooden stick, sometimes having a stone weight or crossbar attached and used in primitive societies for loosening the ground to extract buried wild plant foods and for tilling the soil.
  • digressionary — Serving as a digression.
  • dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
  • dilapidations — Plural form of dilapidation.
  • dilettanteish — Alternative form of dilettantish.
  • dilettanteism — The condition of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
  • dim statement — (programming)   (From "dimension") A keyword in most versions of the BASIC programming language that declares the size of an array. E.g. DIM A(100) declares a one-dimensional array with 101 numeric elements (including A(0)). Dim DepartmentNumber As Integer which declares a single (scalar) variable of type Integer.
  • dimensionally — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
  • dimensionless — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
  • dimwittedness — The state or condition of being dimwitted.
  • dingleberries — Plural form of dingleberry.
  • dinitrogenase — (enzyme) One of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.
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