13-letter words containing o, s, c, i, t
- discontinuous — not continuous; broken; interrupted; intermittent: a discontinuous chain of mountains; a discontinuous argument.
- 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.
- discourtesies — Plural form of discourtesy.
- discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- discriminator — a person or thing that discriminates.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- disintoxicate — to free from intoxication or drunkenness
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- dissociations — Plural form of dissociation.
- divarications — Plural form of divarication.
- do justice to — to show to full advantage
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
- duplicitously — In a duplicitous, two-faced manner.
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- ecclesiolatry — excessive reverence for churchly forms and traditions.
- echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
- ectoparasites — Plural form of ectoparasite.
- ectoparasitic — Of or pertaining to ectoparasites.
- ectosymbionts — Plural form of ectosymbiont.
- edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.
- educationists — Plural form of educationist.
- egotistically — In an egotistic manner.
- ejection seat — a seat, esp as fitted to military aircraft, that is fired by a cartridge or rocket to eject the occupant from the aircraft in an emergency
- electrologist — A person trained to remove unwanted hair on the body or face or small blemishes on the skin by a method that involves the application of heat using an electric current.
- electromerism — a type of tautomerism in which the isomers (electromers) differ in the distribution of charge in their molecules
- electrooptics — the technology that deals with the production, control, and detection of light by electrical devices
- electrophiles — Plural form of electrophile.
- electrostatic — Of or relating to stationary electric charges or fields as opposed to electric currents.
- electrotypist — an electrotyper
- emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.
- encapsulation — The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
- encomiastical — Alternative form of encomiastic.
- encrustations — Plural form of encrustation.
- encyclopedist — A person who writes, edits, or contributes to an encyclopedia.
- endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
- endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
- endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
- enterocolitis — Inflammation of both the small intestine and the colon.
- epicondylitis — A painful inflammation of tendons surrounding an epicondyle.