13-letter words containing ir
- dairy factory — a factory making butter, cheese, lactose, etc from milk collected from surrounding farming areas
- dairy farming — the business of farming to produce milk and milk products
- dairy produce — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
- dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
- dasht-i-kavir — a salt waste on the central plateau of Iran: a treacherous marsh beneath a salt crust
- date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
- delirifacient — anything that causes or induces delirium
- deliriousness — The characteristic of being delirious.
- desirableness — The quality of being desirable.
- devirgination — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- 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.
- direct action — any action seeking to achieve an immediate or direct result, especially an action against an established authority or powerful institution, as a strike or picketing.
- direct cinema — a rigorous form of cinéma vérité, especially as practiced by some American cinematographers in the late 1950s, in which only indigenous sound is used.
- direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
- direct method — a technique of foreign-language teaching in which only the target language is used, little instruction is given concerning formal rules of grammar, and language use is often elicited in situational contexts.
- direct motion — the movement of a celestial body (as seen from the earth) from east to west across the sky
- direct object — a word or group of words representing the person or thing upon which the action of a verb is performed or toward which it is directed: in English, generally coming after the verb, without a preposition. In He saw it the pronoun it is the direct object of saw.
- direct speech — actual words spoken, not quoted or reported
- 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.
- direct-acting — (of a steam pump) having the steam pistons connected directly to the pump pistons without a crankshaft or flywheel.
- direct-mailer — a person or firm engaged in direct-mail advertising.
- directionally — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- directionless — the act or an instance of directing.
- directorially — In terms of film direction.
- directorships — Plural form of directorship.
- 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 realism — a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
- 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!
- disaffirmance — to deny; contradict.
- disconfirming — Not confirming.
- dish the dirt — share gossip
- dispiritingly — In a dispiriting manner.
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
- dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
- 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)
- ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
- electric fire — a device that provides heat for a room from an incandescent electric element
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- empiricalness — Quality of being empirical.
- enteroviruses — Plural form of enterovirus.
- environmental — Relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition.
- fairly-traded — bought from the producer at a guaranteed price
- fairview park — a city in N Ohio.
- fairy penguin — a small penguin, Eudyptula minor, with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coast
- fairy swallow — a variety of domestic fancy pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet
- fairy-slipper — Calypso (def 2).