13-letter words containing s, e, n, d, p
- dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
- depersonalise — Alternative spelling of depersonalize.
- depersonalize — To depersonalize a system or a situation means to treat it as if it did not really involve people, or to treat it as if the people involved were not really important.
- deposit money — checks, letters of credit, etc., that circulate and are payable on demand.
- depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
- depressogenic — Causing or tending to cause depression.
- depth sounder — an instrument for determining depths under water, especially under a ship.
- desperateness — reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency: a desperate killer.
- dessert spoon — A dessert spoon is a spoon which is midway between the size of a teaspoon and a tablespoon. You use it to eat desserts.
- dessertspoons — Plural form of dessertspoon.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- dip one's lid — to raise one's hat as a greeting, etc
- disappearance — the act or an instance of disappearing; a ceasing to be seen or to exist.
- disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.
- discrepancies — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
- disemployment — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
- disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
- disgospelling — depriving of access to the gospel
- 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.
- dispersedness — the state of being dispersed
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- display panel — an electronic screen on which information can be displayed
- dispositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of disposition.
- dispossessing — Present participle of dispossess.
- dispossession — to put (a person) out of possession, especially of real property; oust.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disreputation — disrepute.
- disrespecting — Present participle of disrespect.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- doppelgangers — Plural form of doppelganger.
- draftspersons — Plural form of draftsperson.
- drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
- dynamic scope — (language) In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- encyclopedias — Plural form of encyclopedia.
- encyclopedism — Comprehensive learning or knowledge.
- encyclopedist — A person who writes, edits, or contributes to an encyclopedia.
- endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
- endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
- endopeptidase — An enzyme that breaks peptide bonds other than terminal ones in a peptide chain.
- epanadiplosis — a figure of speech involving the same word being used at the beginning and the end
- epicondylitis — A painful inflammation of tendons surrounding an epicondyle.
- eve's pudding — a baked sponge pudding with a layer of apple at the bottom
- expeditionist — (rare) One who goes on an expedition.