13-letter words containing s, t, c, l
- declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
- delicatessens — Plural form of delicatessen.
- 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
- depoliticised — Simple past tense and past participle of depoliticise.
- depoliticizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depoliticize.
- descriptively — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- desert cooler — (in India) a cooling device in which air is driven by an electric fan through wet grass
- desert locust — a migratory locust, Schistocerca gregaria, of North Africa and Asia, associated with the plagues described in the Old Testament.
- deserticolous — living or growing in a desert.
- despicability — Despicableness.
- 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.
- dextroglucose — dextrose
- dialect atlas — linguistic atlas
- dichotomously — divided or dividing into two parts.
- difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
- dioristically — in a dioristic manner
- directionless — the act or an instance of directing.
- disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
- discoloration — the act or fact of discoloring or the state of being discolored.
- disconsolated — Obsolete form of disconsolate.
- discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
- discreditable — bringing or liable to bring discredit.
- discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- distinctively — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
- distractingly — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- 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).
- disyllabicity — The state or characteristic of having two syllables.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
- dual controls — If a vehicle used by a driving instructor has dual controls, it has pedals on the passenger's side as well as on the driver's side to allow the driving instructor to brake should the learner try to move off when it is dangerous to do so
- dualistically — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
- duplicitously — In a duplicitous, two-faced manner.
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- easter candle — a tall candle, symbolizing Christ, that is sometimes blessed and placed on the gospel side of an altar on Holy Saturday and kept burning until Ascension Day.
- ecclesiastics — a member of the clergy or other person in religious orders.
- ecclesiolatry — excessive reverence for churchly forms and traditions.
- ectocommensal — Biology. (of an organism) living in a commensal relationship on the exterior of another organism.
- effectualness — The state or condition of being effectual.
- egotistically — In an egotistic manner.
- elastic limit — the greatest stress that can be applied to a material without causing permanent deformation
- electricities — Plural form of electricity.
- electrographs — Plural form of electrograph.