14-letter words containing a, i, y
- dispensatively — in a dispensative manner
- dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
- display window — shop window displaying goods
- disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
- disputatiously — In a disputatious manner.
- disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
- dissociability — Lack of sociability; unsociableness.
- ditransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being ditransitive.
- dodecasyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to 12 syllables.
- dog-day cicada — any of several cicadas of the genus Tibicen, that have distinctive songs commonly heard during July and August.
- 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.
- dogwood family — the plant family Cornaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple opposite leaves, small flowers often surrounded by showy, petallike bracts, and berrylike fruit, including the bunchberry, cornelian cherry, and dogwood.
- dolichocephaly — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
- donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
- dorcas society — a society of women of a church whose work it is to provide clothing for the poor.
- down and dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
- down-and-dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
- downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
- dramatic irony — irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
- dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
- drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
- 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
- dyalog limited — (company) The company that distributes Dyalog APL. Previously known as Dyadic Systems Limited.
- dynamic typing — (programming) Enforcement of type rules at run time as opposed to compile time. Dynamic typing catches more errors as run-time exceptions than static typing.
- dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
- early american — (of furniture, buildings, utensils, etc.) built or made in the U.S. in the colonial period or somewhat later.
- early check-in — An early check-in at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check in earlier than the normal time.
- earsplittingly — In an earsplitting way; very loudly.
- earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
- easy listening — middle-of-the-road (def 3).
- easy-listening — Also called easy listening. popular music having comparatively conventional, melodic qualities and hence having broad commercial appeal.
- ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- egocentrically — In an egocentric manner.
- electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
- electrolytical — Dated form of electrolytic.
- electronically — By means of electronics, or of electronic technology.
- embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
- emblematically — In an emblematic manner.
- empathetically — In an empathetic way.
- empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
- enantiostylous — in the manner of enantiostyly
- encompassingly — So as to encompass.
- encyclopaediae — Irregular plural form of encyclopaedia.
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
- encyclopedical — (American spelling) alternative spelling of encyclopaedical.
- endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
- endodontically — according to the practice of endodontics
- endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
- endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.