Words whose 13th letter is D

Chloroplastid (n.) A granule of chlorophyll; -- also called chloroleucite.

Chondroganoidea (n.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.

Chromoplastid (n.) A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.

Dispositioned (a.) Having (such) a disposition; -- used in compounds; as, well-dispositioned.

Distinguished (a.) Separated from others by distinct difference; having, or indicating, superiority; eminent or known; illustrious; -- applied to persons and deeds.

Hexactinellid (a.) Having six-rayed spicules; belonging to the Hexactinellinae.

Icositetrahedron (n.) A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.

Monosaccharide () Alt. of -rid

Porcelainized (a.) Baked like potter's lay; -- applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.

Quinquenerved (a.) Having five nerves; -- said of a leaf with five nearly equal nerves or ribs rising from the end of the petiole.

Sesquisulphide (n.) A sulphide, analogous to a sesquioxide, containing three atoms of sulphur to two of the other ingredient; -- formerly called also sesquisulphuret; as, orpiment, As2S3 is arsenic sesquisulphide.

Tripinnatifid (a.) Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid.

Unexperienced (a.) Untried; -- applied to things.

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