13-letter words containing s, a, n, o, d
- dilapidations — Plural form of dilapidation.
- dimensionally — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- dinitrogenase — (enzyme) One of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.
- dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
- disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
- disappointing — failing to fulfill one's hopes or expectations: a disappointing movie; a disappointing marriage.
- disaster zone — area affected by a catastrophe
- disco dancing — dancing at a disco
- discoloration — the act or fact of discoloring or the state of being discolored.
- disconsolated — Obsolete form of disconsolate.
- discordianism — (recreation) /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ The veneration of Eris, also known as Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularised by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Illuminatus!" as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners - it should on no account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from "Principia Discordia": "A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads." Discordianism is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati. See Religion, Church of the SubGenius, and ha ha only serious.
- discount card — a card that entitles the holder to buy goods from a seller at a discount
- discount rate — the rate of interest charged in discounting commercial paper.
- discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- discriminator — a person or thing that discriminates.
- disestimation — the act of having esteem removed
- disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- disharmonious — inharmonious; discordant.
- disharmonized — Simple past tense and past participle of disharmonize.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- disintegrator — One who, or that which, disintegrates.
- disintoxicate — to free from intoxication or drunkenness
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- disobligation — the state of being without obligation
- disordinately — in a manner that lacks order
- disorganizing — Present participle of disorganize.
- disorientated — to disorient.
- disorientates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disorientate.
- dispassionate — free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
- dispensations — Plural form of dispensation.
- displantation — the removal of a plantation
- dispositional — the predominant or prevailing tendency of one's spirits; natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristic attitude: a girl with a pleasant disposition.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- disreputation — disrepute.
- dissemination — the act of disseminating, or spreading widely: The Internet allows for the rapid dissemination of information.
- disseminators — Plural form of disseminator.
- dissertations — Plural form of dissertation.
- dissimilation — the act of making or becoming unlike.
- dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
- dissociations — Plural form of dissociation.
- distillations — Plural form of distillation.
- distortionary — an act or instance of distorting.
- divarications — Plural form of divarication.
- do one's nana — to become very angry
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- 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.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.