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14-letter words containing a, d, m, i, e

  • devil-may-care — If you say that someone has a devil-may-care attitude, you mean that they seem relaxed and do not seem worried about the consequences of their actions.
  • diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
  • diamond geezer — a very nice or good man
  • diamond-shaped — rhombic
  • diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
  • diastereomeric — having the properties of or pertaining to a diastereoisomer
  • diathermaneity — the quality of being diathermanous
  • diffie-hellman — (cryptography)   A public-key encryption key exchange algorithm.
  • diffractometer — an instrument that is used to study atomic crystal structure by measuring the angles at which x-rays, neutrons, or electrons are diffracted by matter.
  • diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
  • digital camera — a camera that records images in digital form by means of a device that converts the optical image to an electrical signal.
  • 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.
  • dimensionality — 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.
  • direct primary — a primary in which members of a party nominate its candidates by direct vote.
  • direct-examine — to subject to direct examination. Compare cross-examine (def 2).
  • disaccommodate — to inconvenience (a person)
  • disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
  • disarrangement — Upset of the normal order.
  • disassemblable — That can be disassembled.
  • disaster movie — a film in which a disastrous event such as an earthquake, fire, air crash etc is the focus of the action
  • discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
  • discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discriminately — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
  • discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • disembarrassed — Simple past tense and past participle of disembarrass.
  • disenchantment — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • disengagements — Plural form of disengagement.
  • disentrainment — the act of discharging troops from a train
  • disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
  • disimpassioned — calm; dispassionate.
  • dismal science — the science of economics
  • distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
  • dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
  • dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
  • domain address — (networking)   The name of a host on the Internet belonging to the hierarchy of Internet domains.
  • 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.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
  • dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
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