13-letter words containing t, o, e, n
- 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.
- donnan uptake — The Donnan uptake is the uptake of an electrolyte (= a substance which electricity can pass through) as a neutral pair of ions during a sorption process.
- double batten — two wooden battens screwed together for holding the edge of a drop between them.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
- double-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
- doubtlessness — The property of being doubtless.
- doughnut hole — a funding shortfall in the standard drug benefit offered by many Medicare prescription drug plans
- down the line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
- down the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
- down the tube — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- down to earth — practical and realistic: a down-to-earth person.
- down-the-line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
- down-to-earth — practical and realistic: a down-to-earth person.
- downconverter — A device that converts a signal to a lower frequency, especially in television reception.
- downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
- draft version — a preliminary version
- draftspersons — Plural form of draftsperson.
- dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
- dronkverdriet — drunk and maudlin
- drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
- dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- e-proposition — a universal negative proposition
- ear infection — an infection that affects the ear
- earnest money — money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract.
- earth station — a terminal equipped to receive, or receive and transmit, signals from or to communications satellites.
- east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
- east paterson — former name of Elmwood Park (def 2).
- easter bonnet — an especially pretty or fancy hat designed for a woman to wear to church on Easter Sunday or, especially, in an Easter parade
- easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
- eastern shore — the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, including parts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
- 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?
- ecomanagement — any of various ways to lessen the harmful impact of human activity on the environment.
- economic rent — the return on a productive resource, as land or labor, that is greater than the amount necessary to keep the resource producing or on a product in excess of what would have been the return except for some unique factor.
- economization — The act or practice of using resources to the best effect.
- ectocommensal — Biology. (of an organism) living in a commensal relationship on the exterior of another organism.
- 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.
- educationally — pertaining to education.
- educationists — Plural form of educationist.
- effortfulness — (psychology) subjective experience of exertion or effort involved in performing an activity.
- egocentricity — The quality of being egocentric.
- eigenfunction — Each of a set of independent functions that are the solutions to a given differential equation.
- 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
- electioneered — Simple past tense and past participle of electioneer.
- electioneerer — One who electioneers.
- electrization — the action of electrifying