14-letter words containing d, e, n, i, a, l
- despoticalness — the quality of being despotic
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- detail drawing — a separate large-scale drawing of a small part or section of a building, machine, etc
- detrimentality — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
- devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
- devil's island — one of the three Safety Islands, off the coast of French Guiana: formerly a leper colony, then a French penal colony from 1895 until 1938. Area: less than 2 sq km (1 sq mile)
- devitalization — The act of devitalizing.
- diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
- diagenetically — in a diagenetic way
- diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
- diagonalizable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalized
- dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
- differentiable — capable of being differentiated.
- differentially — of or relating to difference or diversity.
- diffie-hellman — (cryptography) A public-key encryption key exchange algorithm.
- diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
- digital native — a person who has been familiar with computers, the Internet, and other digital technology from a young age. Compare digital immigrant.
- dihedral angle — the angle between two planes in a dihedron.
- dimensionality — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- dinoflagellate — any of numerous chiefly marine plankton of the phylum Pyrrophyta (or, in some classification schemes, the order Dinoflagellata), usually having two flagella, one in a groove around the body and the other extending from its center.
- directed angle — See at directed (def 3).
- directionality — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- disappointedly — depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations: a disappointed suitor.
- discernability — The state of being discernable.
- disciplinaries — Plural form of disciplinary.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disconsolately — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- discretionally — At one's discretion.
- 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.
- disdainfulness — The state or quality of being disdainful.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- dismal science — the science of economics
- dispensability — capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
- dispensational — Of or pertaining to dispensation.
- dispensatively — in a dispensative manner
- dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
- dispersal zone — a defined area in which any police or community support officer can force any group of two or more people to disperse for 24 hours
- displeasedness — the state of being displeased
- disposableness — Disposability.
- dissertational — Resembling or pertaining to dissertations.
- diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
- divine healing — healing through divine intervention as in response to prayer or because of faith.
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
- dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
- donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
- door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
- dot-sequential — of, relating to, or being a color television system that sends and reproduces the primary colors as dots in proper sequence on each scanned line to produce a color picture.
- double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.