14-letter words containing a, d, h, n
- cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
- cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
- dance of death — a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death
- darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
- death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
- death instinct — the destructive or aggressive instinct, based on a compulsion to return to an earlier harmonious state and, ultimately, to nonexistence
- death sentence — A death sentence is a punishment of death given by a judge to someone who has been found guilty of a serious crime such as murder.
- deathbed scene — a depiction in art or literature of events that take place at somebody's deathbed
- dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
- dechristianize — to make non-Christian
- dehabilitation — (sociology) The process of social estrangement and progressive loosening of social bonds between an individual and his family and society as a result of long-term residence in an institution.
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- dehumanization — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
- dehydrogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- dental hygiene — the maintenance of the teeth and gums in healthy condition, esp by proper brushing, the removal of plaque, etc
- desert varnish — the dark, lustrous coating or crust, usually of manganese and iron oxides, that forms on rocks, pebbles, etc., when exposed to weathering in the desert.
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- diachronically — in a diachronic fashion
- diagonal cloth — a twilled fabric woven with distinctly diagonal lines.
- diamond-shaped — rhombic
- diaphanousness — The quality of being diaphanous.
- diathermaneity — the quality of being diathermanous
- dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
- die in harness — to die while still working or active, prior to retirement
- different than — different from
- diffie-hellman — (cryptography) A public-key encryption key exchange algorithm.
- dihedral angle — the angle between two planes in a dihedron.
- dimenhydrinate — a synthetic, crystalline, antihistamine powder, C 17 H 22 NO⋅C 7 H 6 ClN 4 O 2 , used in the treatment of allergic disorders and as a preventive for seasickness and airsickness.
- dinner theater — a restaurant in which a stage production is performed during or after dinner.
- dinner theatre — a form of entertainment at which a play is performed while the audience is served dinner
- 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
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
- disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
- disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- dithionic acid — a strong, unstable acid, H 2 S 2 O 6 , known only in solution and in the form of its salts.
- divine healing — healing through divine intervention as in response to prayer or because of faith.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
- down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
- down the hatch — drinks toast
- draconic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.