14-letter words containing a, m, e, r
- 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.
- 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).
- disarrangement — Upset of the normal order.
- 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.
- 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.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- disentrainment — the act of discharging troops from a train
- disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
- distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
- dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
- do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- domain address — (networking) The name of a host on the Internet belonging to the hierarchy of Internet domains.
- domestic rates — a type of taxation system used to fund local government
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
- dream merchant — a person, as a moviemaker or advertiser, who panders to or seeks to develop the public's craving for luxury, romance, or escapism.
- drum majorette — a girl or woman who leads a marching band or drum corps.
- 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
- dwarf palmetto — an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground.
- dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
- e-mail address — electronic mail address
- early american — (of furniture, buildings, utensils, etc.) built or made in the U.S. in the colonial period or somewhat later.
- eastern camass — wild hyacinth.
- eastern empire — the eastern part of the Roman Empire, especially after the division in a.d. 395, having its capital at Constantinople: survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire in a.d. 476.
- echocardiogram — a graphic record produced by an echocardiograph.
- econometrician — Someone who studies economies with a view to mathematics.
- ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
- egalitarianism — belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, social, or economic life.
- electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
- electromagnets — Plural form of electromagnet.
- electromotance — an electromotive force
- electromyogram — A record or display produced by electromyography.
- electrothermal — concerned with both electricity and heat, esp the production of electricity by heat
- elementariness — The state or condition of being elementary.
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.