13-letter words containing o, d, r, l
- crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
- crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
- crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
- crown molding — decorative ceiling trim
- crystalloidal — Relating to a crystalloid.
- culloden moor — a moor in NE Scotland, near Inverness: site of the battle that ended the Jacobite Rebellion 1746.
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- dactylography — the scientific study of fingerprints for purposes of identification
- danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
- darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
- das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- de ghelderode — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), 1898–1962, Belgian dramatist.
- decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).
- decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
- decarboxylate — to take away a carboxyl group from (an organic compound) or (of an organic compound) to lose a carboxyl group
- decelerometer — an instrument for measuring deceleration
- declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
- deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- deely boppers — hairband with two bobbing antennae-like attachments
- default route — (networking) A routing table entry which is used to direct packets addressed to hosts or networks not explicitly listed in the routing table.
- defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
- deflectometer — An instrument that measures the deflection of structures when loads are applied.
- defloration's — the act of deflowering.
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- deformational — of or relating to deformation
- degradational — (geology) Pertaining to or formed by degradation.
- degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
- deleteriously — In a deleterious manner; harmfully.
- deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
- deliriousness — The characteristic of being delirious.
- delivery note — a document that accompanies a delivery of goods
- delivery room — In a hospital, the delivery room is the room where women give birth to their babies.
- demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- dendroecology — The science that uses dendrochronology to analyze historic ecological processes.
- dendrological — Of, pertaining to dendrology.
- dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- 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.
- depolymerized — Simple past tense and past participle of depolymerize.
- deprecatorily — In a deprecatory manner.
- derealisation — Alternative form of derealization.
- derealization — a symptom of various psychological and medical conditions, as well as a side-effect of certain treatments and drugs, whereby the world around one seems less real
- dereligionize — to remove the religious aspects from (something)
- 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.