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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).
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