13-letter words containing s, p, e
- dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
- 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.
- depoliticised — Simple past tense and past participle of depoliticise.
- depoliticizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depoliticize.
- 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.
- depressomotor — retarding motor activity
- depressurized — Simple past tense and past participle of depressurize.
- depressurizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depressurize.
- depth sounder — an instrument for determining depths under water, especially under a ship.
- dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
- dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- 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.
- desperateness — reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency: a desperate killer.
- despicability — Despicableness.
- dessert apple — an eating apple; an apple that can be eaten raw
- 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.
- deuteroscopic — of or relating to deuteroscopy; of second sight
- devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
- diadem spider — a common Eurasian spider, Araneus diadematus, that constructs orb webs: family Argiopidae
- diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
- dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
- diazo process — a method for printing on paper treated with a diazo compound that disintegrates upon exposure to light and developing the unexposed areas by the use of diazo dyes.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- dip one's lid — to raise one's hat as a greeting, etc
- dipleidoscope — an instrument that uses a telescope and a hollow prism to see when the sun crosses the meridian
- dipstick test — a test for detecting the presence of sugar in the urine, as in diabetes.
- direct speech — actual words spoken, not quoted or reported
- directorships — Plural form of directorship.
- disapparelled — undressed; naked
- disappearance — the act or an instance of disappearing; a ceasing to be seen or to exist.
- discapacitate — to incapacitate (a person)
- disceptatious — disputable
- disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- 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.
- disfellowship — (in some Protestant religions) the status of a member who, because of some serious infraction of church policy, has been denied the church's sacraments and any post of responsibility and is officially shunned by other members.
- disgospelling — depriving of access to the gospel
- disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- disparateness — The degree to which a thing is disparate.