14-letter words containing d, i, c, o, t
- cut-off device — a device that terminates the flow or supply of something
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- cylinder front — a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.
- cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
- dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
- dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
- dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
- dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
- decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
- dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
- decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
- decimalization — Alternative spelling of decimalisation.
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- decivilization — those people or nations that have reached such a state.
- decollectivize — to organize (a people, industry, economy, etc.) according to the principles of collectivism.
- decolonisation — Alternative spelling of decolonization.
- decolonization — Decolonization means giving political independence to a country that was previously a colony.
- decolorization — decolor.
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- decompensation — the inability of an organ, esp the heart, to maintain its function due to overload caused by a disease
- deconditioning — Present participle of decondition.
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- deconsecration — The opposite of consecration, to undo consecration. Desecration or defilement.
- deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
- deconstruction — a technique of literary analysis that regards meaning as resulting from the differences between words rather than their reference to the things they stand for. Different meanings are discovered by taking apart the structure of the language used and exposing the assumption that words have a fixed reference point beyond themselves
- deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
- decontaminated — Simple past tense and past participle of decontaminate.
- decontaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decontaminate.
- decontaminator — A device that decontaminates.
- decoration day — Memorial Day
- decoration-day — Also called Decoration Day. a day, May 30, set aside in most states of the U.S. for observances in memory of dead members of the armed forces of all wars: now officially observed on the last Monday in May.
- decorative art — any of the visual arts applied in order to render something more attractive or ornate
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- decrementation — The act or process of decrementing.
- deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
- delayed action — A delayed action mechanism causes a delay on the device it is fitted to, so that it does not work as soon as you switch it on or operate it.
- delayed-action — (of an explosive projectile) exploding some time after hitting the target.
- delocalization — to remove from the proper or usual locality.
- delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
- democratically — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- denazification — The process of bringing the leaders of the National Socialist regime in Germany to justice and of purging all elements of Nazism from public life, carried out especially between 1945 and 1948.
- denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
- depoliticising — Present participle of depoliticise.
- depoliticizing — Present participle of depoliticize.
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- dermatographic — relating to dermatography
- dermatological — the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases.
- dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- despoticalness — the quality of being despotic
- destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions