13-letter words containing s, i, r, e, t
- dental caries — cavity formation in teeth caused by bacteria that attach to teeth and form acids in the presence of sucrose, other sugars, and refined starches; tooth decay.
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- deodorisation — Alternative form of deodorization.
- depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
- derealisation — Alternative form of derealization.
- derequisition — to release from military to civilian use
- derivationist — a person who believes that it is possible to derive knowledge of what is good for humans from a metaphysical study of humans themselves
- dermatologies — Plural form of dermatology.
- dermatologist — A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in the study of skin and the treatment of skin diseases.
- descriptively — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- descriptivism — the theory that moral utterances have a truth value
- descriptivist — a writer, teacher, or supporter of descriptive grammar or descriptive linguistics.
- descriptivity — The quality or state of being descriptive.
- desegregating — Present participle of desegregate.
- desegregation — the elimination of laws, customs, or practices under which people from different religions, ancestries, ethnic groups, etc., are restricted to specific or separate public facilities, neighborhoods, schools, organizations, or the like.
- desert island — A desert island is a small tropical island, where nobody lives.
- deserticolous — living or growing in a desert.
- desertization — the processes by which an area becomes a desert.
- dessert knife — a knife used during the dessert course, usually somewhat smaller than a dinner knife.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- destructively — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- destructivism — the theory that a part of a whole may be considered a principle part if the destruction of that part would lead to the destruction of the whole
- destructivist — a person who holds to the theory of destructivism
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- desultoriness — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- determinators — determiner (def 1).
- deterministic — Deterministic ideas or explanations are based on determinism.
- deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
- deuteronomist — one of the writers of Deuteronomy
- deuteroscopic — of or relating to deuteroscopy; of second sight
- diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- differentials — Plural form of differential.
- differentness — not alike in character or quality; distinct in nature; dissimilar: The two brothers are very different, although they are identical twins.
- dimmer switch — A dimmer switch is an electrical switch which turns off the full beam of a headlamp and turns on the low beam.
- dimmer-switch — a person or thing that dims.
- dinitrogenase — (enzyme) One of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.
- direct access — pertaining to the ability to obtain data from, or place data in, external storage without the need to sequentially scan other data contained there.
- direct speech — actual words spoken, not quoted or reported
- direct-access — pertaining to the ability to obtain data from, or place data in, external storage without the need to sequentially scan other data contained there.
- directionless — the act or an instance of directing.
- directorships — Plural form of directorship.
- 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
- disafforested — Simple past tense and past participle of disafforest.
- disaggregated — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disagreements — Plural form of disagreement.
- disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
- disaster area — a region or locality in which the population is generally affected by the occurrence of a major disaster, as a widespread flood, an explosion causing extensive damage, or the like.
- disaster fund — a fund set up to relieve people or countries afflicted by a disaster
- disaster zone — area affected by a catastrophe