13-letter words containing s, t, e, a, d
- disseminative — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- disseminators — Plural form of disseminator.
- dissertations — Plural form of dissertation.
- dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
- distance race — a running race longer than 1500 meters (1635 yards).
- 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.
- document case — a flat, portable case, often of leather, for carrying papers, documents etc.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
- dome fastener — a fastening device consisting of one part with a projecting knob that snaps into a hole on another like part, used esp in closures in clothing
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- 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.
- draft version — a preliminary version
- draftspersons — Plural form of draftsperson.
- drama student — a student who is training to become an actor
- draw the shot — to deliver the bowl in such a way that it approaches the jack
- dreamcatchers — Plural form of dreamcatcher.
- driver's seat — the seat from which a vehicle is operated.
- dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
- dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- earth-goddess — a goddess of fertility and vegetation.
- east flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1150 sq. mi. (2980 sq. km). Capital: Ghent.
- east hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
- east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
- 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.
- easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
- easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
- easter parade — a parade held on or near Easter Day, in particular a strolling procession in and around Fifth Avenue New York City (celebrated by Irving Berlin in a song, which gave rise to a film of the same name) for which people dress up in especially smart clothes; this derives from an older tradition of wearing new clothes at Easter in honour of the festival.
- easter sunday — Easter (def 2).
- easter-ledges — a pudding made from the young leaves of the bistort
- eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
- editorialists — Plural form of editorialist.
- editorializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of editorialize.
- educationists — Plural form of educationist.
- elastoplasted — Covered with Elastoplast.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
- endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
- endopeptidase — An enzyme that breaks peptide bonds other than terminal ones in a peptide chain.
- endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.