13-letter words containing t, e, s, c
- deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
- decision time — a time at which an important decision must be taken
- decision tree — a treelike diagram illustrating the choices available to a decision maker, each possible decision and its estimated outcome being shown as a separate branch of the tree
- declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
- decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
- decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- decomposition — Decomposition is the process of decay that takes place when a living thing changes chemically after dying.
- decongestants — Plural form of decongestant.
- deconsecrated — (of a church) having been transferred to secular use
- deconsecrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconsecrate.
- deconstructed — having no formal structure
- deconstructor — an adherent to the theory of deconstruction
- deep discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
- deep-discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
- defectiveness — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
- deficientness — the state or quality of being deficient
- delicatessens — Plural form of delicatessen.
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- denouncements — Plural form of denouncement.
- densification — the act of becoming or making more dense
- densitometric — Of or pertaining to densitometry.
- 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
- denunciations — Plural form of denunciation.
- depoliticised — Simple past tense and past participle of depoliticise.
- depoliticizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depoliticize.
- depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- deterministic — Deterministic ideas or explanations are based on determinism.
- deuteroscopic — of or relating to deuteroscopy; of second sight
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- dextroglucose — dextrose
- diagnosticate — (archaic, transitive) To make a diagnosis of; to recognise (a disease or similar) by its symptoms.
- dialect atlas — linguistic atlas
- difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
- 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.
- dipstick test — a test for detecting the presence of sugar in the urine, as in diabetes.
- 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.