13-letter words containing r, e, a, l, t
- draggletailed — untidy; bedraggled; slovenly.
- draw the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- ear-splitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- earl palatine — count palatine (def 2).
- early adopter — a person who uses a new product or technology before it becomes widely known or used.
- east berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
- east flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1150 sq. mi. (2980 sq. km). Capital: Ghent.
- east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
- easter candle — a tall candle, symbolizing Christ, that is sometimes blessed and placed on the gospel side of an altar on Holy Saturday and kept burning until Ascension Day.
- easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
- easter-ledges — a pudding made from the young leaves of the bistort
- easterly wave — a westward-moving, wavelike disturbance of low atmospheric pressure embedded in tropical easterly winds.
- eastern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- eccentrically — deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd: eccentric conduct; an eccentric person.
- ecclesiolatry — excessive reverence for churchly forms and traditions.
- editorialists — Plural form of editorialist.
- editorialized — Simple past tense and past participle of editorialize.
- editorializer — One who editorializes.
- editorializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of editorialize.
- electric hare — (in greyhound racing) a model of a hare, mounted on an electrified rail, which the dogs chase
- electrization — the action of electrifying
- electroactive — (of living tissue) exhibiting electrical activity or responsive to electrical stimuli
- electrodermal — Of or relating to measurement of the electrical conductivity of the skin, especially as an indicator of someone’s emotional responses.
- electrographs — Plural form of electrograph.
- electromagnet — A soft metal core made into a magnet by the passage of electric current through a coil surrounding it.
- electron beam — a beam or stream of electrons emitted by a single source that move in the same direction and at the same speed
- electroplated — Simple past tense and past participle of electroplate.
- electroplates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electroplate.
- electrostatic — Of or relating to stationary electric charges or fields as opposed to electric currents.
- electrovalent — (of bonding) resulting from electrostatic attraction between positive and negative ions; ionic.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- embranglement — Embroilment, entanglement; the state of being or getting embrangled.
- enculturating — Present participle of enculturate.
- enculturation — The gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group by a person, another culture, etc.
- energetically — In an energetic manner.
- enthrallingly — In an enthralling way.
- entrance hall — large lobby, foyer
- enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
- environmental — Relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition.
- epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
- epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
- eproctophilia — Sexual arousal from flatulence.
- equalitarians — Plural form of equalitarian.
- equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.