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14-letter words containing c, r, o, s, e, d

  • dental records — records produced during a dental examination and recording the state of a patient's teeth
  • dermatomycoses — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
  • dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
  • destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
  • desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
  • deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
  • diastereomeric — having the properties of or pertaining to a diastereoisomer
  • dioscoreaceous — of or relating to the Dioscoreaceae family of monocotyledonous plants that includes the yam (genus Dioscurea)
  • dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
  • direct deposit — a plan in which salaries or other payments are transferred by the paying agency directly to the accounts of the recipients.
  • director's cut — an edited version of a movie that has not been altered by a studio and over which its director has complete artistic control.
  • disceptatorial — disputable
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • 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.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • discretionally — At one's discretion.
  • discretization — the act or process of making mathematically discrete.
  • discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
  • disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
  • diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
  • do one's cruet — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
  • domestic rates — a type of taxation system used to fund local government
  • dorcas society — a society of women of a church whose work it is to provide clothing for the poor.
  • double deckers — (jargon)   Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
  • double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • duplex process — any of several methods for making steel in which the process is begun in one furnace and finished in another.
  • dust collector — A dust collector is a vessel or piece of equipment for the removal of dust from a gas.
  • ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • electrodeposit — To deposit by means of electrodeposition.
  • electroshocked — Simple past tense and past participle of electroshock.
  • enclosed order — a Christian religious order that does not permit its members to go into the outside world
  • endocervicitis — (medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix.
  • exercise video — a recorded television programme on which the presenter performs various keep-fit exercises, explaining how to perform each one, as the viewer joins in while watching
  • expansion card — (hardware)   A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface. Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.
  • extension cord — an extra length of cable that can be added to an electric lead
  • flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
  • food processor — an electric appliance with interchangeable blades within a closed container into which food is inserted for slicing, shredding, mincing, chopping, puréeing, or otherwise processing at high speeds.
  • forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
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