14-letter words containing a, c, t, s
- discrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
- discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
- discriminators — Plural form of discriminator.
- discriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
- disenchantment — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
- disincarcerate — to release from imprisonment
- disinclination — the absence of inclination; reluctance; unwillingness.
- disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
- disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
- disrespectable — not respectable.
- dissociability — Lack of sociability; unsociableness.
- distractedness — having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry.
- doctor faustus — (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus) a play (c1588) by Christopher Marlowe, based on the medieval legend of Faust.
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
- dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- domestic rates — a type of taxation system used to fund local government
- domestic staff — servants
- domestications — Plural form of domestication.
- dorcas society — a society of women of a church whose work it is to provide clothing for the poor.
- draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
- drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
- drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
- ductless gland — endocrine gland.
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- east china sea — a part of the N Pacific, bounded by China, Japan, the Ryukyus, and Taiwan. 480,000 sq. mi. (1,243,200 sq. km).
- east cleveland — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
- eastern camass — wild hyacinth.
- eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
- eastern thrace — an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
- ecclesiastical — of or relating to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.
- ecclesiasticus — a book of the Apocrypha. Abbreviation: Ecclus.
- eco-capitalism — the theory or practice of a free-market economy in which natural resources are regarded as capital and profits are partially dependent on environmental protection and sustainability
- ecocatastrophe — a disaster caused by changes in the environment.
- ectocommensals — Plural form of ectocommensal.
- ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- educated guess — informed estimate
- educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- elastic tissue — a connective tissue consisting largely of yellow, elastic fibers, occurring especially in the walls of arteries and veins
- electromagnets — Plural form of electromagnet.
- electrostatics — The study of stationary electric charges or fields as opposed to electric currents.
- elegiac stanza — a quatrain in iambic pentameters with alternate lines rhyming
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.