14-letter words containing a, t, r, e
- direct-examine — to subject to direct examination. Compare cross-examine (def 2).
- direct-reading — (of an instrument) calibrated so that a given quantity to be measured can be read directly off the scale without the need of a multiplying constant
- directed angle — See at directed (def 3).
- directed graph — (digraph) A graph with one-way edges. See also directed acyclic graph.
- directionality — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- disaggregating — Present participle of disaggregate.
- disaggregation — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disaggregative — separating from the mass or into parts
- disappropriate — To remove something that has been allocated to someone; often to reassign it elsewhere.
- disarrangement — Upset of the normal order.
- disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.
- disassortative — (mathematics) Describing a graph (or network) in which nodes of low degree are more likely to connect with nodes high degree.
- disaster movie — a film in which a disastrous event such as an earthquake, fire, air crash etc is the focus of the action
- disceptatorial — disputable
- discernability — The state of being discernable.
- discharge rate — The discharge rate is the rate at which a process produces waste or a product.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- 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.
- discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disentrainment — the act of discharging troops from a train
- disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
- disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
- disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
- disincarcerate — to release from imprisonment
- disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
- disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- disintegrating — Present participle of disintegrate.
- disintegration — the act or process of disintegrating.
- disintegrative — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- disintegrators — Plural form of disintegrator.
- disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
- disorientating — to disorient.
- disorientation — to disorient.
- dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
- dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
- disrespectable — not respectable.
- dissertational — Resembling or pertaining to dissertations.
- distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
- distractedness — having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry.
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- distributaries — Plural form of distributary.