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14-letter words containing c, r, e, n

  • depreciatingly — So as to disparage or belittle.
  • destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
  • desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
  • device control — (character)   One of the four ASCII characters, DC1, DC2, DC3, and DC4, once used to remotely control equipment (e.g. a paper tape reader) via electromagnetic switches. The characters were usually paired, DC1/DC3 turning one device on/off, and DC2/DC4 another.
  • 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)
  • dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
  • dihydrocodeine — a synthetic drug similar to codeine, used as an analgesic, an antidiarrhoeal, and to relieve coughing, or used recreationally
  • dinner service — set of crockery and cutlery
  • direct current — Electricity. an electric current of constant direction, having a magnitude that does not vary or varies only slightly. Abbreviation: dc.
  • direct insurer — A direct insurer is an insurance company that sells its policies directly to customers without using intermediaries.
  • 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).
  • directionality — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
  • disappearances — Plural form of disappearance.
  • discernability — The state of being discernable.
  • discernibility — The state or quality of being discernible.
  • disciplinaries — Plural form of disciplinary.
  • disconcertedly — In a disconcerted manner.
  • disconcertment — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • discount store — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • 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.
  • discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
  • disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
  • disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
  • 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).
  • distractedness — having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry.
  • district nurse — In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.
  • diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
  • dividend cover — the number of times that a company's dividends to shareholders could be paid out of its annual profits after tax, used as an indication of the probability that dividends will be maintained in subsequent years
  • divine service — service1 (def 15).
  • do one's cruet — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
  • docking bridge — a raised platform running from one side to the other of a ship toward the stern, used by officers for supervising docking operations.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • dongle cracker — (security)   Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
  • dragging piece — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
  • dragline crane — an excavating crane having a bucket that is dropped from a boom and dragged toward the crane base by a cable.
  • drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • 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.
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