14-letter words containing a, d, s, c, i
- discretionally — At one's discretion.
- discretization — the act or process of making mathematically discrete.
- 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.
- discriminating — to make or constitute a distinction in or between; differentiate: a mark that discriminates the original from the copy.
- 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
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- dodecasyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to 12 syllables.
- 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.
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
- drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
- ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- 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
- encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
- endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.
- exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
- expansion card — (hardware) A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface. Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.
- fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- fish and chips — fried fish fillets and French fries.