13-letter words containing p, i, n, e, t
- counterspying — the activities of a counterspy
- county police — (in the US) the police of a particular county
- decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.
- deception bed — any of various kinds of concealed or disguised beds designed in the 18th century.
- deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
- decimal point — A decimal point is the dot in front of a decimal fraction.
- decompilation — The act, or the result of decompiling.
- decomposition — Decomposition is the process of decay that takes place when a living thing changes chemically after dying.
- decrepitating — Present participle of decrepitate.
- decrepitation — to roast or calcine (salt, minerals, etc.) so as to cause crackling or until crackling ceases.
- deduplication — (computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
- deep discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
- deep-discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
- deipnosophist — a person who is a master of dinner-table conversation
- dependability — software reliability
- dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
- deposit money — checks, letters of credit, etc., that circulate and are payable on demand.
- deprecatingly — to express earnest disapproval of.
- depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
- deprivatizing — Present participle of deprivatize.
- deprotonation — (chemistry) The removal of a proton (hydrogen ion) from a molecule to form a conjugate base.
- deptford pink — a plant, Dianthus armeria, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having slender, erect stems and leaves and clusters of small, bright pink flowers.
- diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
- digitipinnate — (of a compound leaf) digitate with pinnate leaflets.
- dinitrophenol — any of the six isomers consisting of phenol where two hydrogen atoms are substituted by nitro groups, C 6 H 4 N 2 O 5 , used in dyes and wood preservatives, and in biochemistry to uncouple oxidative phosphorylation.
- diphenoxylate — a substance, C 30 H 32 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride in the treatment of diarrhea.
- diphthongized — Simple past tense and past participle of diphthongize.
- dipole moment — electric dipole moment.
- disemployment — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
- disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- disparateness — The degree to which a thing is disparate.
- dispassionate — free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
- dispensations — Plural form of dispensation.
- dispense with — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- dispositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of disposition.
- 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.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- 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).