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13-letter words containing r, i, s, e

  • dressing gown — a tailored robe worn for lounging or for grooming, applying makeup, etc.
  • dressing room — a room for use in getting dressed, especially one for performers backstage in a theater, television studio, etc.
  • dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
  • dressing-down — a severe reprimand; scolding.
  • driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
  • drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
  • driver's seat — the seat from which a vehicle is operated.
  • dromaeosaurid — A carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of a late Cretaceous family that included deinonychus and the velociraptors. They had a large slashing claw on each hind foot.
  • drongo shrike — any insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics, having a glossy black plumage, a forked tail, and a stout bill
  • drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
  • dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
  • dry ski slope — A dry ski slope is a slope made of an artificial substance on which you can practise skiing.
  • dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
  • dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
  • dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • e-proposition — a universal negative proposition
  • ear-splitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
  • early closing — shop closure at earlier hour
  • early english — pertaining to the first style of Gothic architecture in England, ending in the latter half of the 13th century, characterized by the use of lancet arches, plate tracery, and narrow openings.
  • earth science — any of various sciences, as geography, geology, or meteorology, that deal with the earth, its composition, or any of its changing aspects.
  • earth station — a terminal equipped to receive, or receive and transmit, signals from or to communications satellites.
  • east ayrshire — a council area of SW Scotland, comprising the E part of the historical county of Ayrshire: part of Strathclyde region from 1975 to 1996: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Kilmarnock. Pop: 119 530 (2003 est). Area: 1252 sq km (483 sq miles)
  • east berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
  • east germanic — a branch of the Germanic languages no longer extant, comprising Gothic and probably others of which there are no written records. Abbreviation: EGmc.
  • east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
  • 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.
  • east timorese — of or relating to East Timor or its inhabitants
  • easter egging — (jargon)   (IBM, From the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in the US and many parts of Europe) The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in the hope that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not love them for it. Compare Easter egg, shotgun debugging.
  • easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
  • easter rising — an armed insurrection in Dublin in 1916 against British rule in Ireland: the insurgents proclaimed the establishment of an independent Irish republic before surrendering, 16 of the leaders later being executed
  • eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
  • ecclesiolatry — excessive reverence for churchly forms and traditions.
  • ectoparasites — Plural form of ectoparasite.
  • ectoparasitic — Of or pertaining to ectoparasites.
  • edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • editorialists — Plural form of editorialist.
  • editorializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of editorialize.
  • edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
  • egregiousness — The quality of being egregious.
  • electricities — Plural form of electricity.
  • 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
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