13-letter words containing s, e, t, l, a
- dermatologist — A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in the study of skin and the treatment of skin diseases.
- dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
- desert island — A desert island is a small tropical island, where nobody lives.
- desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
- despicability — Despicableness.
- dessert apple — an eating apple; an apple that can be eaten raw
- destabilising — Present participle of destabilise.
- destabilizing — Present participle of destabilize.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- detestability — The state or quality of being detestable.
- devastatingly — tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
- devotionalist — a devotee
- diabetologist — a person who studies diabetes
- dialect atlas — linguistic atlas
- dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
- dieselization — The conversion of a petrol engine to run on diesel fuel.
- differentials — Plural form of differential.
- dilettanteish — Alternative form of dilettantish.
- dilettanteism — The condition of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
- 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
- disaffiliated — Simple past tense and past participle of disaffiliate.
- disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
- disassimilate — to break down (a complex molecule or substance) into simple ones through catabolism
- disconsolated — Obsolete form of disconsolate.
- discreditable — bringing or liable to bring discredit.
- discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
- disentailment — The action of freeing property from entail.
- disentangling — Present participle of disentangle.
- disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- dishabilitate — to disqualify
- disilluminate — to darken
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disinthralled — freed from thraldom
- dismantlement — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- disordinately — in a manner that lacks order
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
- distastefully — In a distasteful manner.
- distress call — a prearranged communication code sign indicating that the sender is in a situation of peril, distress, or the like, as SOS, Mayday, etc. Compare distress signal (def 1).
- distress flag — any flag flown by a vessel to show that it is in distress, as an ensign flown at half-mast or upside down.
- distress sale — a sale held for the purpose of raising money to meet emergency expenses and usually offering goods at a substantial discount for the payment of cash.
- distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
- donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.