13-letter words containing y, i, n
- dactyliomancy — the use of a suspended finger-ring for divination
- dairy farming — the business of farming to produce milk and milk products
- danish pastry — Danish pastries are cakes made from sweet pastry. They are often filled with things such as apple or almond paste.
- dating agency — an agency that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- day and night — If something happens day and night or night and day, it happens all the time without stopping.
- day blindness — hemeralopia.
- day of infamy — December 7, 1941, on which Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II: so referred to by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his speech to Congress the next day, asking for a declaration of war on Japan.
- daydreamingly — While daydreaming.
- deacetylation — to remove the acetyl group from (an organic compound).
- declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
- defendability — (uncountable) The condition of being defendable.
- defensibility — capable of being defended against assault or injury: The troops were bivouacked in a defensible position.
- deferentially — showing deference; deferent; respectful.
- dehydrogenize — dehydrogenate.
- delivery note — a document that accompanies a delivery of goods
- demyelinating — Present participle of demyelinate.
- demyelination — The removal of the myelin sheath from a nerve fibre, normally as a result of disease.
- deoxycytidine — (biochemistry, genetics) A nucleoside consisting of cytosine linked to deoxyribose.
- deoxygenating — Present participle of deoxygenate.
- deoxygenation — to remove oxygen from (a substance, as blood or water).
- dependability — software reliability
- deposit money — checks, letters of credit, etc., that circulate and are payable on demand.
- deprecatingly — to express earnest disapproval of.
- designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
- desynchronize — Disturb the synchronization of; put out of step or phase.
- determinately — having defined limits; definite.
- detrimentally — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
- devastatingly — tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- dicyandiamide — a white, crystalline, rather sparingly water-soluble solid, C 2 H 4 N 4 , produced from cyanamide by polymerization: used in the manufacture of plastics and pharmaceuticals.
- digby chicken — a smoked herring.
- digressionary — Serving as a digression.
- dimensionally — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- dimethylamine — a colourless strong-smelling gas produced from ammonia and methanol, used to produce many industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals
- diphenoxylate — a substance, C 30 H 32 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride in the treatment of diarrhea.
- diphenylamine — a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble benzene derivative, C 12 H 11 N, used chiefly in the preparation of various dyes, as a stabilizer for nitrocellulose propellants, and for the detection of oxidizing agents in analytical chemistry.
- diphthongally — in a diphthongal manner
- directionally — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- dirty laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
- dirty old man — a mature or elderly man with lewd or obscene preoccupations.
- dirty weekend — A dirty weekend is a weekend during which two people go away together, mainly in order to have sex.
- dirty-laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
- disconformity — Geology. the surface of a division between parallel rock strata, indicating interruption of sedimentation: a type of unconformity.
- discontiguity — the quality of being discontiguous
- discontinuity — lack of continuity; irregularity: The plot of the book was marred by discontinuity.
- discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- discriminably — So as to be discriminable; distinguishably.
- disemployment — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
- disgruntledly — In a disgruntled manner.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.