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14-letter words containing d, e, n, r, a

  • 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
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • disentrainment — the act of discharging troops from a train
  • 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.
  • 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
  • dissertational — Resembling or pertaining to dissertations.
  • 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.
  • diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
  • dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
  • do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • domain address — (networking)   The name of a host on the Internet belonging to the hierarchy of Internet domains.
  • don't you dare — If you say to someone 'don't you dare' do something, you are telling them not to do it and letting them know that you are angry.
  • dongle cracker — (security)   Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
  • donkey's years — a very long time; eons.
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
  • down-and-outer — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • 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.
  • dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
  • drainage basin — the area drained by a river and all its tributaries. Also called catchment area, drainage area. Compare watershed (def 2).
  • drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
  • drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
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