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13-letter words containing y, s

  • disposability — designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up: disposable plastic spoons; a disposable cigarette lighter.
  • dispositively — in a dispositive manner
  • dispossessory — to put (a person) out of possession, especially of real property; oust.
  • dispraisingly — By way of dispraise.
  • dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
  • disqualifying — Present participle of disqualify.
  • disquietingly — causing anxiety or uneasiness; disturbing: disquieting news.
  • dissatisfying — Present participle of dissatisfy.
  • dissimilarity — unlikeness; difference.
  • dissimilatory — to modify by dissimilation.
  • dissolubility — The capability to be dissolved or disintegrated.
  • dissymmetries — Plural form of dissymmetry.
  • distastefully — In a distasteful manner.
  • distinctively — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
  • distortionary — an act or instance of distorting.
  • distractingly — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • distressfully — In a distressful way; showing distress.
  • distressingly — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
  • distrustfully — In a distrustful manner.
  • distrustingly — In a distrusting manner.
  • disyllabicity — The state or characteristic of having two syllables.
  • dizzy heights — If you say that someone has reached the dizzy heights of something, you are emphasizing that they have reached a very high level by achieving it.
  • dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
  • domesday book — a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
  • 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.
  • doomsday book — Domesday Book.
  • doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
  • down syndrome — Down syndrome is a disorder that some people are born with. People who have Down syndrome have physical differences, such as shorter stature, and learning difficulties.
  • dressy casual — (of clothes) informal yet expensive, smart, or stylish
  • dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
  • dry ski slope — A dry ski slope is a slope made of an artificial substance on which you can practise skiing.
  • dualistically — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
  • duplicitously — In a duplicitous, two-faced manner.
  • dyer's rocket — weld2 .
  • dynamic scope — (language)   In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
  • dynamogenesis — the output of raised activity of the nervous system
  • dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • dyslipidaemia — Alternative spelling of dyslipidemia.
  • dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
  • dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
  • dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
  • dysmorphology — The study of genetic defects, especially congenital malformations.
  • dysrationalia — The inability to think and behave rationally despite adequate intelligence.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • early closing — shop closure at earlier hour
  • early english — pertaining to the first style of Gothic architecture in England, ending in the latter half of the 13th century, characterized by the use of lancet arches, plate tracery, and narrow openings.
  • earnest money — money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract.
  • east ayrshire — a council area of SW Scotland, comprising the E part of the historical county of Ayrshire: part of Strathclyde region from 1975 to 1996: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Kilmarnock. Pop: 119 530 (2003 est). Area: 1252 sq km (483 sq miles)
  • east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
  • east by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of east. Abbreviation: EbS.
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