14-letter words containing a, d
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- dermatographia — a common medical condition in which lightly rubbing the skin produces red, often raised, temporary marks
- dermatographic — relating to dermatography
- dermatological — the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases.
- dermatologists — Plural form of dermatologist.
- dermatomycoses — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- desalinisation — Removal of salt and other minerals from water; desalination.
- desalinization — desalt.
- descartes' law — Snell's law.
- describability — The quality of being describable.
- 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.
- design pattern — (programming) A description of an object-oriented design technique which names, abstracts and identifies aspects of a design structure that are useful for creating an object-oriented design. The design pattern identifies classes and instances, their roles, collaborations and responsibilities. Each design pattern focuses on a particular object-oriented design problem or issue. It describes when it applies, whether it can be applied in the presence of other design constraints, and the consequences and trade-offs of its use.
- despicableness — The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
- despiritualize — to render less spiritual; to remove the spiritual character of; to make more material
- despoticalness — the quality of being despotic
- destigmatizing — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- detached house — a house that is not joined to any other house
- detail drawing — a separate large-scale drawing of a small part or section of a building, machine, etc
- detention camp — a compound where prisoners are detained temporarily, as pending determination of their legal status under immigration laws.
- deteriorations — Plural form of deterioration.
- determinations — Plural form of determination.
- determinatives — Plural form of determinative.
- detestableness — The state or quality of being detestable.
- detoxification — Detoxification is treatment given to people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol in order to stop them from being addicted.
- detrimentality — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
- deunionization — to eliminate labor unions from (a company, industry, etc.).
- deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
- devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
- developability — to bring out the capabilities or possibilities of; bring to a more advanced or effective state: to develop natural resources; to develop one's musical talent.
- device manager — (operating system) The Microsoft Windows control panel applet used to enable, disable and configure the hardware on which Windows is running. You can launch Device Manager via the Control Panel/System or directly with: rundll32.exe devmgr.dll DeviceManager_Execute (2008-04-16)
- devil's island — one of the three Safety Islands, off the coast of French Guiana: formerly a leper colony, then a French penal colony from 1895 until 1938. Area: less than 2 sq km (1 sq mile)
- devil's tattoo — a rapid or nervous drumming with the fingers or feet
- 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.
- devitalization — The act of devitalizing.
- dextrinization — The process of dextrinizing.
- dextrorotation — a rotation to the right; clockwise rotation, esp of the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light passing through a crystal, liquid, or solution, as seen by an observer facing the oncoming light
- dextrorotatory — turning or circling to the right, in a clockwise direction
- diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
- diachronically — in a diachronic fashion
- diadokokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
- diadokokinesis — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
- diagenetically — in a diagenetic way
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- diagonal cloth — a twilled fabric woven with distinctly diagonal lines.
- diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
- diagonalizable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalized