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15-letter words containing d, e, a, c

  • disaffectionate — not affectionate
  • discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • discountenanced — Simple past tense and past participle of discountenance.
  • discountenances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discountenance.
  • discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • disenchantingly — In a disenchanting manner.
  • disenfranchised — to disfranchise.
  • disenfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disenfranchise.
  • disentrancement — the act of setting free from a trance
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
  • disjecta membra — scattered fragments, esp parts taken from a writing or writings
  • display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
  • distance medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards (402 meters), the second runs 880 yards (805 meters), the third runs 1320 yards (1207 meters), and the fourth runs 1760 yards (1609 meters).
  • distance runner — a participant in distance races.
  • dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • dixiecrat party — States' Rights Democratic Party.
  • do an injustice — If you say that someone has done you an injustice, you mean that they have been unfair in the way that they have judged you or treated you.
  • docosahexaenoic — Of or pertaining to docosahexaenoic acid or its derivatives.
  • doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
  • document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
  • documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
  • dodecanoic acid — lauric acid.
  • dodecasyllables — Plural form of dodecasyllable.
  • dolichocephalic — long-headed; having a cephalic index of 75 and under.
  • domestic animal — an animal, as the horse or cat, that has been tamed and kept by humans as a work animal, food source, or pet, especially a member of those species that have, through selective breeding, become notably different from their wild ancestors.
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • double saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
  • downward closed — closure
  • drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • duque de caxias — a city in SE Brazil: a suburb of Rio de Janeiro.
  • dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
  • dysteleological — Of or pertaining to dysteleology.
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • eastern sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in eastern and central Africa and including the Nilotic languages.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
  • echocardiograph — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
  • edict of nantes — a seaport in and the capital of Loire-Atlantique, in W France, at the mouth of the Loire River.
  • elaborated code — a way of talking which is explicit and does not assume that the listener shares the same assumptions and understandings as the speaker
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • electra paradox — the supposed paradox that one may know something to be true of an object under one description but not another, as when Electra knew that Orestes was her brother but not that the man before her was her brother although he was Orestes. This shows the predicate "knows" to be intensional, that Electra's knowledge here is de dicto, and that the statement of it yields an opaque context
  • electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
  • electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
  • electrodialytic — Relating to electrodialysis.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
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