13-letter words containing r, d, l
- descriptively — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- desert cooler — (in India) a cooling device in which air is driven by an electric fan through wet grass
- desert island — A desert island is a small tropical island, where nobody lives.
- desert locust — a migratory locust, Schistocerca gregaria, of North Africa and Asia, associated with the plagues described in the Old Testament.
- deserticolous — living or growing in a desert.
- desirableness — The quality of being desirable.
- desk calendar — a loose-leaf calendar containing one or two pages for each day, with spaces for notes.
- dessert apple — an eating apple; an apple that can be eaten raw
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- destructively — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- desultoriness — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- determinantal — of or relating to determinants
- determinately — having defined limits; definite.
- deterrability — the quality of being deterrable
- detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
- detrimentally — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
- deuteranomaly — a milder form of deuteranopia; partial deuteranopia
- devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- dewar (flask) — a double-walled flask with a vacuum between the walls, which are silvered on the inside, used esp. for storage of liquefied gases
- dextroglucose — dextrose
- diametrically — If you say that two things are diametrically opposed, you are emphasizing that they are completely different from each other.
- diamond drill — a diamond-tipped drill
- diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
- dictatorially — In a dictatorial manner.
- diethyl ether — ether (def 1).
- differentials — Plural form of differential.
- digital frame — a picture frame containing an LCD screen that is used to display digital photos: Download pictures to your digital frame directly from your camera's memory card.
- digital meter — A digital meter is a meter that gives a separate reading, in the form of a decimal number, for each given input quantity.
- digital radio — electronic wireless transmission
- digraphically — in a digraphic manner
- dingleberries — Plural form of dingleberry.
- 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.
- dioristically — in a dioristic manner
- diplock court — in Northern Ireland, a court of law designed to try cases linked with terrorism. In order to prevent the intimidation of jurors, the court consists of a single judge and no jury
- direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
- direct-mailer — a person or firm engaged in direct-mail advertising.
- directionally — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- directionless — the act or an instance of directing.
- directorially — In terms of film direction.
- dirty laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
- dirty old man — a mature or elderly man with lewd or obscene preoccupations.
- dirty realism — a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
- dirty-laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
- disagreeables — annoying things
- disapparelled — undressed; naked
- disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
- dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discoloration — the act or fact of discoloring or the state of being discolored.