13-letter words containing t, i, s, c
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- disrespecting — Present participle of disrespect.
- disrespective — (obsolete) Showing a lack of respect; disrespectful.
- dissociations — Plural form of dissociation.
- distance race — a running race longer than 1500 meters (1635 yards).
- 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.
- divarications — Plural form of divarication.
- do justice to — to show to full advantage
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- 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
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- dramatic arts — the art of the writing and production of plays; drama
- drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
- dualistically — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- 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.
- 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
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- earth science — any of various sciences, as geography, geology, or meteorology, that deal with the earth, its composition, or any of its changing aspects.
- east germanic — a branch of the Germanic languages no longer extant, comprising Gothic and probably others of which there are no written records. Abbreviation: EGmc.
- ecclesiastics — a member of the clergy or other person in religious orders.
- ecclesiolatry — excessive reverence for churchly forms and traditions.
- echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
- ectoparasites — Plural form of ectoparasite.
- ectoparasitic — Of or pertaining to ectoparasites.
- ectosymbionts — Plural form of ectosymbiont.
- edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.
- educationists — Plural form of educationist.
- effectiveness — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- effectivities — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- efficientness — The quality of being efficient; efficiency.
- eggs benedict — dish of poached eggs, ham and cream
- egotistically — In an egotistic manner.
- ejection seat — a seat, esp as fitted to military aircraft, that is fired by a cartridge or rocket to eject the occupant from the aircraft in an emergency
- elastic limit — the greatest stress that can be applied to a material without causing permanent deformation
- electricities — Plural form of electricity.
- electrologist — A person trained to remove unwanted hair on the body or face or small blemishes on the skin by a method that involves the application of heat using an electric current.
- electromerism — a type of tautomerism in which the isomers (electromers) differ in the distribution of charge in their molecules
- electrooptics — the technology that deals with the production, control, and detection of light by electrical devices
- electrophiles — Plural form of electrophile.
- electrostatic — Of or relating to stationary electric charges or fields as opposed to electric currents.