13-letter words that end in t
- disemployment — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
- disengagement — the act or process of disengaging or the state of being disengaged.
- disenrollment — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disentailment — The action of freeing property from entail.
- disfigurement — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- dish the dirt — share gossip
- disinvestment — the withdrawal of invested funds or the cancellation of financial aid, subsidies, or investment plans, as in a property, neighborhood, or foreign country.
- dismantlement — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- dismemberment — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
- disobligement — disobligation
- disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- divertisement — (archaic) diversion; amusement; recreation.
- divorce court — a court having jurisdiction over termination of marital relations, as actions for divorce or annulment.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- domical vault — cloistered vault.
- domino effect — the cumulative effect that results when one event precipitates a series of like events.
- donkey jacket — A donkey jacket is a thick, warm jacket, usually dark blue with a strip across the shoulders at the back.
- doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
- doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
- double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
- dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
- drama student — a student who is training to become an actor
- draw the shot — to deliver the bowl in such a way that it approaches the jack
- driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
- drilling mast — A drilling mast is a structure over an oil well which supports the drilling equipment and allows it to be lifted into and out of the wellbore.
- drink to that — People say 'I'll drink to that' to show that they agree with and approve of something that someone has just said.
- driver's seat — the seat from which a vehicle is operated.
- 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.
- dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
- dumdum bullet — a hollow-nosed or soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact, inflicting a severe wound.
- dumdum-bullet — a hollow-nosed or soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact, inflicting a severe wound.
- dummy element — an otherwise empty element that stands in for and holds the position of another element in a sentence
- dyer's rocket — weld2 .
- e-mail client — mail user agent
- e-recruitment — the practice of using Internet or electronic resources to recruit new employees, as by searching online résumé databases.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- eggs benedict — dish of poached eggs, ham and cream
- 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
- elastic limit — the greatest stress that can be applied to a material without causing permanent deformation
- electrocement — cement that is produced through the addition of lime to molten slag in an electric furnace
- electrologist — A person trained to remove unwanted hair on the body or face or small blemishes on the skin by a method that involves the application of heat using an electric current.
- electromagnet — A soft metal core made into a magnet by the passage of electric current through a coil surrounding it.
- electron volt — a unit of energy equal to that attained by an electron falling unimpeded through a potential difference of one volt; 1.602 × 10-19 joule