13-letter words containing si
- cytochalasins — Plural form of cytochalasin.
- cytodiagnosis — the diagnosis of disease through the study of cells in the body
- danger signal — any type of signal that indicates danger
- deaccessioned — Simple past tense and past participle of deaccession.
- decision time — a time at which an important decision must be taken
- decision tree — a treelike diagram illustrating the choices available to a decision maker, each possible decision and its estimated outcome being shown as a separate branch of the tree
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
- decommissions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decommission.
- decomposition — Decomposition is the process of decay that takes place when a living thing changes chemically after dying.
- decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
- decompression — Decompression is the reduction of the force on something that is caused by the weight of the air.
- deemphasizing — Present participle of deemphasize.
- defeasibility — capable of being annulled or terminated.
- defensibility — capable of being defended against assault or injury: The troops were bivouacked in a defensible position.
- defensiveness — serving to defend; protective: defensive armament.
- densification — the act of becoming or making more dense
- densitometers — Plural form of densitometer.
- densitometric — Of or pertaining to densitometry.
- deposit money — checks, letters of credit, etc., that circulate and are payable on demand.
- derequisition — to release from military to civilian use
- desensitising — Present participle of desensitise.
- desensitizing — Present participle of desensitize.
- designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
- designer drug — any of various narcotic or hallucinogenic substances manufactured illegally from a range of chemicals
- designer gene — a gene altered or created by genetic engineering, especially for use in gene therapy.
- desirableness — The quality of being desirable.
- destabilising — Present participle of destabilise.
- dichotomising — Present participle of dichotomise.
- dick size war — penis war
- diffusibility — capable of being diffused.
- diffusiveness — The state or quality of being diffusive.
- 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.
- dimensionless — 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.
- disassimilate — to break down (a complex molecule or substance) into simple ones through catabolism
- discommission — (transitive) To deprive of a commission or trust.
- discourtesies — Plural form of discourtesy.
- disilluminate — to darken
- disillusioned — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- disincentives — Plural form of disincentive.
- disinfectants — Plural form of disinfectant.
- disinheriting — Present participle of disinherit.
- disinhibiting — Present participle of disinhibit.
- disinhibition — Psychology. a temporary loss of inhibition caused by an outside stimulus.
- disinhibitory — (esp of a drug) causing temporary loss of inhibition
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disintegrated — Simple past tense and past participle of disintegrate.
- disintegrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disintegrate.
- disintegrator — One who, or that which, disintegrates.