13-letter words containing o, u, e, n
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- desultoriness — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
- deuteranomaly — a milder form of deuteranopia; partial deuteranopia
- deuteronomist — one of the writers of Deuteronomy
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- dexterousness — The state or quality of being dexterous.
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
- discounselled — lacking support or counsel
- discount rate — the rate of interest charged in discounting commercial paper.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disillusioned — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- disreputation — disrepute.
- dissoluteness — indifferent to moral restraints; given to immoral or improper conduct; licentious; dissipated.
- document case — a flat, portable case, often of leather, for carrying papers, documents etc.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentarian — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- 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.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
- documentation — the use of documentary evidence.
- documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
- donnan uptake — The Donnan uptake is the uptake of an electrolyte (= a substance which electricity can pass through) as a neutral pair of ions during a sorption process.
- double batten — two wooden battens screwed together for holding the edge of a drop between them.
- double bounce — (of the ball in tennis, table tennis, etc) two bounces on the same side of the net before a return
- double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
- double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- double vision — diplopia.
- double window — a window with two panes of glass
- 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-minded — wavering or undecided in mind.
- double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- 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 tube — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
- drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- duino elegies — a collection of ten poems (1923) by Rainer Maria Rilke.
- dumbfoundedly — In a dumbfounded manner.
- dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- 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?
- echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
- edmund andros — Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.