13-letter words containing s, p, i
- depressurizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depressurize.
- 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.
- despicability — Despicableness.
- 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
- diaphragmitis — inflammation of the diaphragm, phrenitis
- 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.
- dictatorships — Plural form of dictatorship.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- dilapidations — Plural form of dilapidation.
- dip one's lid — to raise one's hat as a greeting, etc
- dip-and-scarp — (of topography) characterized by alternating steeper scarp slopes and gentler dip slopes
- dipleidoscope — an instrument that uses a telescope and a hollow prism to see when the sun crosses the meridian
- diplobacillus — a double bacillus; two bacilli linked end to end.
- dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
- 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.
- disappointing — failing to fulfill one's hopes or expectations: a disappointing movie; a disappointing marriage.
- 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
- disk capacity — the maximum number of bytes that can be held on a disk
- disk striping — data striping
- disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- disparagingly — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- 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.
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- dispatch case — attaché case.
- dispensations — Plural form of dispensation.
- dispense with — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.
- dispersedness — the state of being dispersed
- dispiritingly — In a dispiriting manner.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.