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

  • discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
  • discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
  • 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).
  • dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
  • disrespectable — not respectable.
  • 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.
  • distractedness — having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry.
  • district judge — any judge of a federal district court.
  • district nurse — In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.
  • diverticulitis — inflammation of one or more diverticula, characterized by abdominal pain, fever, and changes in bowel movements.
  • 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.
  • divine service — service1 (def 15).
  • 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.
  • draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
  • dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
  • 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.
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • 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.
  • endurance test — a test to measure the ability of a person, machine, system, etc to deal with physical activity, use, etc
  • exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
  • 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
  • farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
  • field exercise — a military exercise in which mock warfare is staged between two forces.
  • fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • 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.
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