14-letter words containing a, c, n, e, d
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disincarcerate — to release from imprisonment
- disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
- disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- dismal science — the science of economics
- disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- distractedness — having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry.
- diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
- dna sequencing — the procedure of determining the order of base pairs in a section of DNA
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
- dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
- domestications — Plural form of domestication.
- dongle cracker — (security) Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- down the hatch — drinks toast
- dragging piece — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
- dragline crane — an excavating crane having a bucket that is dropped from a boom and dragged toward the crane base by a cable.
- drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- drawing office — an office where drawings are made
- dream merchant — a person, as a moviemaker or advertiser, who panders to or seeks to develop the public's craving for luxury, romance, or escapism.
- drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
- drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
- drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
- drop a clanger — If you say that you have dropped a clanger, you mean that you have done or said something stupid or embarrassing.
- duck and drake — ducks and drakes (def 1).
- ductless gland — endocrine gland.
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- dwelling place — a dwelling.
- dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
- each and every — all
- east cleveland — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- eau de cologne — cologne.
- education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
- educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
- electropainted — Painted electrophoretically.
- ellice islands — group of islands in the WC Pacific, north of Fiji: under British control, 1892-1978; name changed to Tuvalu in 1976 and as such became independent in 1978
- emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
- encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
- encyclopaediae — Irregular plural form of encyclopaedia.
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
- encyclopedical — (American spelling) alternative spelling of encyclopaedical.
- endarterectomy — Surgical removal of part of the inner lining of an artery, together with any obstructive deposits, most often carried out on the carotid artery or on vessels supplying the legs.